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Consumers Demand Patient Data Protection as Black Book Names Protenus as Leading-Edge Innovator

BALTIMORE — In an effort to look forward to the future of healthcare innovation, Black Book Research recently performed a survey that examined consumer preferences about which innovative healthcare technologies piqued their curiosity in four key areas:

“(1) immediate demand from them as an active consumer (meaning they had used or interacted with a healthcare technology, product or service within the last six months);

“(2) most likely drive an improvement in their healthcare status, choices or delivery in the next six months;

“(3) highly innovative and/or disruptive for the healthcare industry;

and (4) immediate value to them.”

With the explosion of electronic health records over the past decade has come an attendant vulnerability of protected health information (PHI). Patient awareness of this issue continues to increase, as demonstrated by such recent surveys as Aetna’s Health Ambitions Survey, where 80 percent of consumers highly rated privacy as an important aspect of healthcare. This consumer fear is well-founded, with at least one public data breach occurring in healthcare every day, and millions of records breached per year, according to the Protenus Breach Barometer.

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RiskRecon is a Finalist for the 2018 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award

SALT LAKE CITY–RiskRecon, a rapidly growing company transforming the management of third-party cyber risk, announced today it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 North America award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the North American business region.

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across North America. The nominees are evaluated on 20 main quantitative and qualitative criterion, which include disruptive impact, market footprint, proof of concept, financial performance, technology innovation, social value, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

“It’s been a time of incredible growth and product innovation,” said Eric Blatte, President and Co-founder of RiskRecon. “We’re thrilled to be recognized for our unique, scalable approach to third-party cyber risk monitoring that gives clients actionable insights from accurate, risk-prioritized security measurements.”

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Benchling Raises $14.5M From Benchmark to Advance Life Sciences Research

SAN FRANCISCO — Today Benchling, the data management and collaboration platform built to advance life sciences research, announced it has closed $14.5M in Series B funding. The round was led by Benchmark, with participation from F-Prime Capital, a global venture capital firm associated with Fidelity Investments, and returning investor Thrive Capital. Benchmark General Partner Eric Vishria will be joining the board of directors.

The new funding comes as the company’s ARR skyrocketed 500% and its customer base tripled year-over-year. Today, more than 100,000 scientists across enterprises and academia are using Benchling. Since its last funding round in 2016, Benchling has seen leading pharmaceutical and biotech customers, such as Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Incyte, Editas Medicine, Agenus, Zymergen, and Obsidian Therapeutics, standardize on its R&D platform.

“Regeneron has been led by physician-scientists for our entire 30-year history,” said Nicholas Papadopoulos, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Research & Development Operations at Regeneron. “Since our founding, science has remained our central guiding principle. Benchling fits perfectly into this philosophy, providing us a flexible informatics platform that enables our scientists to focus on high-impact research and deliver life-transforming medicines.”

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OTA Insight Partners with Outrigger Hotels and Resorts

LONDON and NEW YORK — OTA Insight, the cloud-based data intelligence platform for the hospitality industry, today announced a partnership with Outrigger Hotels and Resorts to drive better revenue and distribution decisions for its multi-branded line of hotels, condominiums and vacation resort properties in Hawaii and the Asia-Pacific region. Outrigger Hotels and Resorts turned to OTA Insight’s suite of revenue intelligence tools to help understand pricing trends and gain greater insights into their markets throughout the Pacific. The partnership represents a monumental milestone for the company as now, 30,000 hotels worldwide are benefiting from OTA Insight’s solutions.

“Not maintaining parity is one of the largest threats to our brand and OTA Insight allows us to efficiently track down rate parity violations. Additionally, we are able to measure parity loss by property, which allows us to hold our revenue leaders accountable across various locations,” says Jenna Villalobos, Vice President of Revenue Management, Outrigger Hotels and Resorts.

OTA Insight’s customer milestone showcases strong growth to its North American and APAC business divisions. Since entering the market in August 2016, OTA Insight’s ability to expand rapidly in this region is a testament to its hard work in creating a simple-to-use, intuitive and interactive platform that customers have quickly embraced.

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Threat Stack Announces Enhanced Support for Businesses Transitioning to Container-Based Infrastructure and Kubernetes

Threat Stack® Cloud SecOps Program Now Offers Businesses Enhanced Visibility and Expertise to Effectively Manage Container-Based Cloud Environments

 

Threat Stack, the leader in Cloud Infrastructure Security, today announced enhancements to the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform® and Cloud SecOps Program. Threat Stack now provides security and IT leaders transitioning to container-based infrastructure the expertise and enhanced security visibility necessary to effectively manage the addition of container-based cloud environments.

Gartner estimates that 50 percent of companies will use container technology by 2020, up from less than 20 percent in 2017. Operations teams are accelerating the transition to container-based infrastructure to reduce operational complexity; however, even when adding containers and kubernetes, they frequently underestimate the visibility required in these complex, heterogeneous environments. Threat Stack’s integrated offering minimizes risk across the attack surface, providing unparalleled visibility and actionable analytics across host and container environments.

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Protenus Recognized as One of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2018

CHICAGO — Protenus has been selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the 2018 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. The complete list of this year’s winners, in alphabetical order, is available here. Modern Healthcare will publish a special supplement featuring ranked lists of all the winners along with the October 1 issue.

“Whether on the frontline or in the top office, healthcare employees witness moments that can either inspire or dishearten them. That can take a toll on an individual and healthcare organizations must take extra steps to ensure that highs and lows during the workday don’t impact engagement or performance,” said Modern Healthcare Editor Aurora Aguilar. “This year’s best places to work, voted on by the employees themselves, exemplify what it takes to maintain dedication and satisfaction among its employees and that is the key to good patient care. Congratulations to this year’s winners and we look forward to celebrating with you in September.”

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OTA Insight listed on Analytics Insight ‘The 10 Most Valuable Business Intelligence Companies in 2018’

SAN JOSE, California and HYDERABAD, India, May 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ —

Analytics Insight Magazine, a brand of Stravium Intelligence and an influential platform for big data, analytics and insights has named ‘The 10 Most Valuable Business Intelligence Companies in 2018‘ in its April-May issue.

 The issue features Altair as the Cover Story. Altair transforms design and decision-making by applying simulation, machine learning and optimization throughout product life cycles. The company’s broad portfolio of simulation technology and patented units-based software licensing model enables Simulation-Driven Innovation™ for its customers.
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Protenus CEO at AMIA 2018 Informatics Summit: Health Systems Can Prevent Drug Diversion With Artificial Intelligence

SAN FRANCISCO — In the midst of an alarming opioid epidemic, drug diversion is playing a contributing role. As much as 10 to 15 percent of all healthcare professionals will misuse drugs or alcohol at some point during their careers, and hospital leaders are beginning to utilize big data analytics and artificial intelligence platforms to combat addiction inside their systems.

Speaking this week at the American Medical Informatics Association 2018 Informatics Summit, Nick Culbertson, CEO and Co-founder of Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics platform, detailed the impact drug diversion is having on healthcare workforce and patients, as well as strategies healthcare systems use to proactively detect and prevent drug diversion incidents from wreaking havoc within their organization.

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OTA Insight’s Rate Intelligence Solutions Now in 20,000 Hotels Worldwide

LONDON — OTA Insight, the cloud-based data intelligence platform for the hospitality industry continues its strong momentum in 2018 by announcing NH Hotel Group is joining as global partner to supply its industry-leading rate intelligence tools across its portfolio. As one of the top 25 hotel groups in the world, NH Hotels operates nearly 400 properties across 30 destinations worldwide across the NH Collection, NH Hotels, NHow Hotels and Hesperia brands. With this partnership, 20,000 hotels around the world are now enjoying the benefits of the OTA Insight platform.
OTA Insight’s rate intelligence will enable the NH Group to implement its revolutionary dashboard technology to inform and support its revenue management strategy with competitor benchmarking. Utilizing the latest rate-shopping technology, the Group will have access to innovative rate parity management tools that work to deliver real-time analysis of locally targeted OTA promotions to ensure all properties can market the best available rate on their own websites and remain competitive at all times.

“We’re thrilled to be working in partnership with the NH Hotel Group to help drive forward its pricing and distribution strategies and enable them to realize their ambitions for increased profitability worldwide,” says Adriaan Coppens, OTA Insight’s CEO and Co-Founder. “We are pleased to welcome another globally recognized name in the hospitality sector to our growing portfolio and look forward to working with the team and supporting the Group with our own portfolio of tools to help maximise their revenues.”

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Codeship, SaaS Continuous Delivery Leader, Acquired by CloudBees

SAN JOSE, CA. – CloudBees, Inc., the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, today announced the acquisition of Codeship. The deal strengthens CloudBees’ market position as the de facto vendor of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), adding a fully automated and easy-to-use platform for individual developers and project teams to seamlessly test, integrate and deploy code.

Codeship, founded in 2011, has more than 2,400 customers leveraging its cloud-based Codeship Basic and Codeship Pro solutions. The company, headquartered in Boston with satellite offices in Berlin, Germany and Vienna, Austria, has more than 100,000 developers using its platform, is executing millions of builds for its users and has raised more than $11 million in venture funding.

The acquisition gives CloudBees a broader portfolio of CI/CD solutions for organizations of all sizes – and with support for several CI/CD philosophies and approaches. CloudBees has long focused on the mass adoption of CI/CD through its work with Jenkins, the leading CI/CD open source automation server. Jenkins offers extensive flexibility and customizability. The CloudBees solutions have focused on the needs of enterprises running Jenkins at scale. Adding the Codeship SaaS enables CloudBees to serve a growing segment of the market looking for SaaS-delivered CI/CD solutions that are easy to use.

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