Google Ventures Shifts Focus to Health Care

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/12/15/google-ventures-shifts-focus-to-healthcare/

Google GOOGL +0.10%’s venture-capital arm is moving strongly into health care and life-sciences startups, mirroring shifts at the Internet giant. More than one-third of the money Google Ventures invested in 2014 went to health care and life-sciences companies, up from 9% each of the prior two years. The venture group plans to continue investing in the area, looking to capitalize on an explosion of health data and new ways to analyze it, said Bill Maris, head of Google Ventures.

The creepiness factor in healthcare data analytics

http://www.cio.com/article/2955923/health-analytics/the-creepiness-factor-in-healthcare-data-analytics.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Healthcare%20Dive&utm_campaign=Issue%3A%202015-08-04%20Healthcare%20Dive

Privacy

Geisinger’s Nicholas Marko: Why health systems need chief data officers [Q&A]

http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/geisingers-nicholas-marko-why-health-systems-need-chief-data-officers-qa/2015-07-31?page=full

Big-data

How The Future Ready Cloud Is Transforming Healthcare [Video]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dell/2015/07/28/how-the-future-ready-cloud-is-transforming-healthcare-video/

How it Works

http://www.forbes.com/dell/cloud-future-of-medicine/

Four Things That Will Change Healthcare As We Know It

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dell/2015/07/28/four-things-that-will-change-healthcare-as-we-know-it/

 

Miami Lakes health care company to be acquired by Blackstone subsidiary for $910M

http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2015/07/07/miami-lakes-health-care-company-to-be-acquired-by.html?ana=e_du_wknd&s=article_du&ed=2015-07-11&u=FAuoHGaGEPdmk4X6khnaiw045b16af&t=1436633431

Emdeon buys analytics firm Altegra Health for $910 million

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/emdeon-buys-analytics-firm-altegra-health-910-million?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRohuq3KZKXonjHpfsX57u4rUa6zlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4GSsBqI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQ7LHMbpszbgPUhM%3D

Revenue cycle company Emdeon this week announced plans to acquire Altegra Health, an analytics firm, for $910 million, a move the companies said will better position them as the industry moves to a value-based model.

Revenue cycle company Emdeon this week announced plans to acquire Altegra Health, an analytics firm, for $910 million, a move the companies said will better position them as the industry moves to a value-based model.

Massive IBM deal gives Watson purpose and puts it in pole position to transform healthcare

Massive IBM deal gives Watson purpose and puts it in pole position to transform healthcare

Watson in the early days