Google Ventures largest investment in a medical tech startup

Google Ventures just invested $130M in Flatiron Health, a start-up that organizes real-time oncology data to help cancer patients and doctors.  Their flagship product, OncoAnalytics or OncologyCloud provides "World-class analytics and business intelligence for cancer care providers."

OncologyCloud by Flatiron Health

Flatiron Health, which launched in 2012 and is currently in beta, collects information by connecting cancer treatment center around the world on its cloud-based technology platform, with the goal of allowing researchers, physicians, and patients to learn from aggregated data collected from millions of cases. It hopes that this will allow doctors to provide better care and enable patients to make data-driven decisions.

Data driven decisions to better enable patients and lead to better outcomes?  Yes, please.