Roche to Acquire Viewics, an Analytics Software Company

I have posted numerous notes about analytics software (see, for example:Lab Analytics Emerges as Hot Area for Software Development;Relevance of Lifestyle Analytics for Healthcare Organizations;Leveraging Lab Analytic Data to Include Actionable Details to Improve Quality; Much of the Future for Pathology and Lab Medicine Rests with Analytics).Roche Diagnostics is now acquiring a lab analytics vendor,Viewics (see: Media Release). Below is an excerpt from the press release from Roche:* Roche to acquire Viewics, Inc. to provide data-driven lab business analytics and add further digital capabilities along the laboratory value chain* The Viewics solution allows for efficient integration of big data from a variety of IT systems in the laboratory and beyond, pioneering a new way in extracting, cleansing, transforming and augmenting data.* Executive, financial, operational, technical, and laboratory roles gain comprehensive insights, enabling data-driven decisions that improve laboratory processes and performance.* Viewics, Inc. will become an integral part of Roche and add further digital capabilities on top of Roche Diagnostics ’ Integrated Core Lab offering.....This acquisition allows Roche to expand its leading position in the Integrated Core Lab with business analytics capabilities, enabling laboratories to make faster data-driven informed decisions on their operations and processes. The cloud-based solution is secure, infrastructure-agnostic, interactive, and acces...
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