Company looks to Health 2.0

Atlas Venture, looking to improve healthcare by empowering the customers to take preventative actions. The company is combining IT and health care to help consumers manage or avoid their illnesses. It's recent investment is Keas Inc, who develops custom action plans for individuals according to their health.

The company has made other healthcare investments:

Atlas’s other health-IT companies include NaviNet Inc., whose communications network links health care providers, patients, health plans and industry partners, and Phase Forward Inc., a provider of data-management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, which went public in 2004. The firm may make four or five of these types of investments with its current fund, its eighth, which closed at $283 million last year, Fagnan said.

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