Niall Brennan, chief data officer and director of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is the recipient of the Health Data Consortium's Health Data Liberators Award.

Apervita and Mayo Clinic are partnering to establish a self-service health measures platform. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has adopted a new policy that will allow innovators and entrepreneurs to access CMS data, such as Medicare claims. 

A new data challenge is underway with $40,000 in prizes available for data visualization tools focused on obesity. 

NEW YORK, May 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Precision Advisors (www.precisionadvisors.com), a Precision for Medicine Company, announced the findings from its 2015 Digital Trends Study of 145 managed care executives. The study concludes that decision makers are aware of the concepts of big data and predictive analytics, but are not equipped to fully implement them. 

SALT LAKE CITY, May 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Catalyst, a leader in healthcare data warehousing and analytics, today launched Health Catalyst Academy, an immersive educational offering designed to help health systems build the internal capacity to exponentially improve their clinical quality and operational efficiency. 

EHRs can help predict which inpatients are at high risk for readmission in real time, according to a study published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission is developing an accreditation program for data registries to ensure that these entities meet the privacy and security obligations expected of all large-scale handlers of protected health information.