InformationWeek Healthcare: Big Data Helps Insurer Pinpoint At-Risk Patients

Aetna and GNS Healthcare use analytics to predict patients at risk for metabolic syndrome Analyzing big data can predict patients’ future risk of metabolic syndrome and allow individuals and clinicians to work together on preventative steps that save lives and money. While organizations have used a lot of big data projects to discern trends, a […]

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 […]

Aetna.com: Using “Big Data” to Predict – and Improve – Your Health

Aetna’s Innovation Labs teamed up with GNS Healthcare to use “big data” to predict the one-year risk of developing metabolic syndrome. The groups used computer models to study information from 37,000 members of one of Aetna’s employer customers. Read the complete article here…

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 […]