BOSTON--“There is no best physician,’ Vinay Mohta, chief technology officer at health data management firm Kyruus, told an audience at Strata Rx 2013.

BOSTON—Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City is on the cutting edge of harnessing data analytics to improve the quality of care at its 1,400-bed teaching facility. Jeff Hammerbacher, founder and chief scientist of Cloudera, and an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, shared some of the organization's data analytics initiatives at Strata Rx 2013.

BOSTON—Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer and “entrepreneur in residence” at the Department of Health and Human Services, told an audience at Strata Rx 2013 that he is on a mission to liberate healthcare data.

BOSTON--Healthcare leaders should harness the power of data analytics to identify, prioritize and make strategic, operational and clinically actionable changes at the organizational level, said Eugene Kolker, chief data officer at Seattle Children’s and head of the bioinformatics & high-throughput analysis laboratory at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, at Strata Rx 2013.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the AHIMA Foundation have launched a new online scholarly peer-reviewed journal that focuses on teaching and workforce issues related to health informatics and information management.

Approximately 46 percent of U.S. hospitals use clinical and business intelligence solutions, according to HIMSS Analytics’ recent industry report, 2013 U.S. Clinical & Business Intelligence Study.

A new partnership will use the Automated Data Intake Program to extract data from UHC members' IT systems, seamlessly transfer the data to UHC and translate data from disparate systems for comparison.

The use of healthcare data is improving healthcare and reconfiguring health information management departments, according to an article in the September issue of Journal of AHIMA.