The intersection of health and big data is getting more crowded. San Mateo, Calif.-based Lumiata is the latest company to get venture backing for technology that crunches data with the aim of improving medical care, Yuliya Chernova reports for Dow Jones VentureWire.
The company has already run an analysis of some 100,000 BlueCross BlueShield patients that found about 10,000 people who were very likely to have congestive heart failure, even though they were undiagnosed. Now the insurance provider, which is also an investor in the company, is alerting doctors who have those patients about this potential missed diagnosis.