A new partnership between NC HealthConnex, North Carolina's statewide health information exchange, and CarePort Health will rely on real-time data exchange to improve care coordination at UNC Health Care.

Sameer Badlani, MD, CIO of Minneapolis-based Fairview, is leading the health system's digital transformation.

Integris Health and Woman's Hospital will both deploy Health Catalyst's data analytics solutions to improve cost transparency surrounding patient care, according to a Dec. 4 news release.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has recruited John Halamka, MD, away from Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he serves as CIO, according to STAT.

Novartis is teaming up with Amazon Web Services to develop a cloud-based data analytics platform to improve the pharmaceutical company's manufacturing, supply chain and delivery operations, according to a Dec. 4 Amazon blog post.

Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica announced Dec. 3 a partnership with healthcare data analytics startup Socially Determined to launch the Ebeid Data Nerve Center to improve understanding of and interventions for social determinants of health.

Change Healthcare reported four large health systems have joined its cloud-native Enterprise Imaging Network.

Healthcare providers and payers have been increasing their IT budget allocations to support data management, business intelligence and data visualization capabilities, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan report.

Dallas-based Steward Health Care will deploy Health Catalyst's analytics solutions to apply data-driven insights to improve clinician and administrator workflows across Steward Hospital Group, Steward Medical Group and the Steward Health Care Network.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has received an HHS grant to build a second "big omics data engine," named BODE 2, to advance translational bioinformatics research and data-enabled clinical care.

Configo Health, a company developing artificial intelligence-powered data analytics solutions for pediatric healthcare facilities, launched Nov. 18 with the announcement of Texas Children's Hospital and Children's National Hospital as founding investors.

Apple, Amazon and Google all made headlines this week for the ways they leverage healthcare data, from supporting research initiatives to creating products to improve patient care delivery.

The future of healthcare will be shaped by the industry's use of data, Kevin Sayer, CEO of Dexcom, a maker of continuous glucose monitoring systems, told CNBC's Jim Cramer.

Patient data can help hospitals and health systems drive actionable insights on topics ranging from technology implementations to revenue cycle functions.

With healthcare organizations gathering reams of data every minute and with advanced analytics software readily available, practically the only thing that can prevent data insights from transforming clinician workflows and patient outcomes is a lack of creativity.

Data analytics have the potential to not simply monitor clinical operations, but actually transform those operations and healthcare delivery as a whole — so long as the integrity of the core data can be ensured.

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare's venture arm participated in a $7.3 million funding round for Socially Determined, a startup using data analytics to identify patients in need of social services and other resources, OSF Ventures announced Oct. 28.

WakeMed Health & Hospitals implemented predictive analytics software from Pera Health, a software-as-a-service company, that sorts through EHR data to identify potential predictors for decline in a patient's health.

Today's healthcare providers are inundated with data from multiple sources and care locations, but often lack methods of transforming it into actionable insights. That leaves providers with numerous blind spots that hinder their ability to optimize revenues and measure performance.

Kshemendra Paul will serve as chief data officer and executive director for data governance and analytics at the Department of Veterans Affairs, VA announced Sept. 23.