Healthcare organizations that push off cloud computing say the features are not compliant with existing government health data regulations. But if we don't understand the true issues, we could miss a huge opportunity. Here are three steps to success.

CMS contracts with eight vendors over 10 years to better integrate its IT business systems and health information with demands of health reform, EHR meaningful use and increasing Medicare beneficiaries.

The 1,000 Genomes Project has produced an integrated haplotype map based on 1,092 individuals from across the globe, highlighting parts of the genome often associated with disease susceptibility, drug response and reaction to environmental factors. The open source databases are hoped to expand clinical innovation.

There's more to the cloud than Google Apps and Amazon storage services. Here are some of the way cloud computing promises to transform healthcare.

Despite the substantive growth predicted for cloud computing in healthcare, privacy and security issues remain, but according to a new report some of those might actually be driving health organizations to the cloud model.