El grupo informático estadounidense IBM anunció este jueves un acuerdo para comprar la empresa especializada en datos sanitarios Truven Health Analytics en una operación valorada en unos 2.600 millones de dólares (más de 2.300 millones de euros).
“Con esta adquisición IBM se convertirá en uno de los principales líderes mundiales del sector de datos sanitarios”, dijo al anunciar el acuerdo la directora general de su división sanitaria IBM Watson Health, Deborah DiSanzo.
MindMaze has a long-term plan to transform medical care using imaging techniques such as virtual reality and augmented reality, and now it has $100 million from investors to explore those possibilities. The startup, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, is making San Francisco its U.S. headquarters, drawn here by the Bay Area’s active virtual reality community and its top research universities. And after its first funding round, announced today, MindMaze has its eye on acquisitions, company founder and CEO Tej Tadi says.
Orion Labs, the startup behind the Onyx push-to-talk wearable device, is announcing today that it has raised $9 million in new funding from Motorola Solutions Venture Capital and Avalon Ventures. The startup is also unveiling the second version of its Onyx wearable for push-to-talk app-enabled voice communication that some have likened to a Star Trek communicator badge.
Orion Labs (formerly known as OnBeep) pulled the covers off of its Onyx wearable in November 2014. Thousands of people are now using the devices, and a new version is on the way within the next two months, founder and CEO Jesse Robbins told VentureBeat in an interview.
Akili Interactive Labs is a medical device company that makes mobile video games—and not the other way around.
That’s an important distinction for co-founder and CEO Eddie Martucci.
“We’re not a consumer company, nor do we want to be,” Martucci told me recently, as we chatted in a conference room at Akili’s new downtown Boston headquarters. “You have to be pretty focused as a company to do something well. And medical is a huge area to focus on.”
Strategy and entrepreneurship are often viewed as polar opposites. Strategy is seen as the pursuit of a clearly defined path—one systematically identified in advance—through a carefully chosen set of activities. Entrepreneurship is seen as the epitome of opportunism—requiring ventures to pivot in new directions continually, as information comes in and markets shift rapidly. Yet the two desperately need each other. Strategy without entrepreneurship is central planning. Entrepreneurship without strategy leads to chaos.
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The rash of headline-grabbing cyberattacks on major companies over the past few years has made one thing abundantly clear: it’s not enough to rely only on traditional security tools. To venture capitalists, that means there’s money to be made by betting on startups developing new ones.
Las empresas mondragonesas Kiro Robotics, como fabricante, y LKS Diaradesign, como firma de diseño, han sido galardonadas con el 'óscar' al mejor diseño con la creación del robot Kiro Oncology. Ambas tienen su sede en el Polo Garaia y han colaborado en el diseño de este robot que dosifica los tratamientos de quimioterapia de forma personalizada y con precisión milimétrica.
Su trabajo en el desarrollo de esta sofisticada máquina les ha reportado uno de los premios de diseño más prestigiosos del mundo, el IF Product Design Award 2016.
Twitter has revealed that last week there was a “bug” in its password recovery system which could have potentially exposed the email address and phone numbers of a “small number” of users. The company place this number at around less than 10,000 active accounts and all have been notified today: “If you weren’t notified, you weren’t affected,” wrote Michael Coates, Twitter’s trust and info security officer.
The president of Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center said on Wednesday that his hospital paid hackers a ransom of $17,000 in bitcoins to regain control of their computer systems after a cyber attack.
Allen Stefanek said in a statement that paying the ransom was the “quickest and most efficient way” of regaining access to the affected systems, which were crippled on Feb. 5 and interfered with hospital staff’s ability to communicate electronically.
Stefanek said there was no evidence that any patient or employee information was accessed in the so-called malware attack, and that the hospital fully restored access to its electronic medical record system this Monday.
“Patient care has not been compromised in any way,” Stefanek said.
