The North American healthcare cloud computing market is predicted to grow to almost $6.5 billion by 2018, according to a report from research firm MarketsandMarkets.

BOSTON--Mayo Clinic took a big leap of faith partnering with Optum Labs, said Cris Ross, CIO, speaking at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 29.

BOSTON--What’s the best word to describe building an analytics-driven organization? “The word I would pick is strategy, as you have to be aligned with the corporate strategy or the whole system breaks down,” said Inderpal Bhandari, PhD, senior vice president and chief data officer at Cambia Health Solutions, speaking at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 29.

Lack of basic scientific knowledge about some disease processes, costs and risks of FDA approval, limited rewards for medical products that could lower spending, treatment creep and the medical arms race all tend to increase healthcare spending without conferring major health benefits, according to a recent report.

The need for analytics is growing as healthcare organizations move from volume to value-based care. As a result, vendors are rushing to the market with a wave of new products, including more targeted solutions, according to a report from KLAS, a Utah-based research firm.

Three health projects were chosen as recipients of Twitter’s #DataGrants pilot program, which aims to give a handful of research institutions access to its public and historical data.

Supply chain standards development organization GS1 Healthcare US has released guidance for using certain standards to implement Unique Device Identification requirements as promulgated by the FDA in September 2013.

A new study validates two novel biomarkers as predictive of acute kidney injury, or acute renal failure, an asymptomatic condition that often is fatal.