In the first quarter of 2018, big data analytics and clinical decision support organizations led the healthcare industry in investments, with analytics companies receiving $679 million and clinical decision companies garnering $516 million. Two of the biggest deals of 2018 so far were Roche’s acquisition of Flatiron Health and Inovalon’s purchase of ABILITY Networks – both in the business of leveraging data for insights. And the number of investors is also rising; more than 400 different investors made deals in the first quarter of 2018, up from 371 in the final quarter of 2017.

Reporting and analysis from Health IT Analytics’ Jennifer Bresnik here.