Strategic Investors: A Digital Health Start-Up’s Best Friend?

Although Coppedge will not disclose the total investment amount, Cambia currently has 13 start-ups in its portfolio, including data analytics company GNS Healthcare. Cambia Health Solutions came out of nowhere this past year to break into Rock Health’s ranking of top digital health investors with eight investments in 2014. The Portland, Oregon-based insurer, the only insurance company on […]

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and GNS Healthcare Announce Collaboration to Identify Potential New Multiple Myeloma Therapies

Initiative will deploy predictive big data analytics to analyze patient data from landmark CoMMpass Study™ to speed drug discovery and development for patients with multiple myeloma CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and NORWALK, Conn. – Jan. 7, 2015 – GNS Healthcare (GNS), a leading provider of analytics solutions for driving personalized interventions that improve population health, and the […]

GNS Healthcare And CHDI Foundation Collaborate To Identify Novel Drug Targets For Huntington’s Disease

Scientific team using state-of-the-art technology to analyze vast dataset CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and NEW YORK CITY – Nov. 12, 2014 – GNS Healthcare (GNS), a leading provider of big data analytics in health care, announced today that CHDI Foundation, Inc. (CHDI), a privately-funded, nonprofit biomedical research organization exclusively dedicated to Huntington’s disease, has committed to continuing […]

Hartford Courant: Aetna Study Uses Data To Predict Risk Of Metabolic Syndrome

Aetna and a data analytics firm looked at medical claims of 37,000 policyholders to find the likelihood that those patients are at a risk of metabolic syndrome, according to research published last week in the American Journal of Managed Care. Metabolic syndrome is characterized by five factors: a large waist size, high blood pressure, high […]

Health Data Management: Biomedical Data Analyses Can Predict Metabolic Risk

Analyses of biomedical data from nearly 37,000 volunteer employees of a large company insured under Aetna shows a success rate of 80 percent to 88 percent in predicting risk of metabolic syndrome, which can cause chronic disease. Metabolic syndrome means an individual has at least three of five biological characteristics that are out of normal […]

Infographic: The Real World of Big Data

The benefits of Big Data are often spoken of in the future tense. The reality, however, is that Big Data is today – here and now – delivering on its many promises. See how companies, including GNS Healthcare and Aetna, are using Big Data to create business value today: The Real World of Big Data […]

AJMC publishes results showing big data analytics can predict risk of metabolic syndrome

Large-scale patient data analytics can help create personalized, early intervention for patients CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and HARTFORD, Conn. – June 27, 2014 – Research published today in the American Journal of Managed Care demonstrates that analysis of patient records using state-of-the-art data analytics can predict future risk of metabolic syndrome. More than a third of the […]

Science: Big Biological Impacts From Big Data

In the life sciences, data can come in many forms, including information about genomic sequences, molecular pathways, and different populations of people. Those data create a potential bonanza, if scientists can overcome one stumbling block: how to handle the complexity of information. Tools and techniques for analyzing big data promise to mold massive mounds of […]

Boston Business Journal: GNS Healthcare raises $10M for big data

GNS Healthcare Inc. has raised a $10 million Series B funding round led by existing investor Cambia Health Solutions, based in Portland Oregon. New investors, California’s Heritage Provider Network and Mitsui & Co also joined the round. The announcement follows the Cambridge company’s expansion to a second office in Austin, Texas, and a plan to […]