On the back of its Azure Health Data Services launch, we unpack how Microsoft is on its way to leading the healthcare cloud market.

What Oracle’s rumored Cerner acquisition would mean for the EHR market: The reported $30 billion acquisition would put Oracle back on the map in healthcare cloud, and shake up the market dynamics between Epic and Cerner. More on this below.

Health systems jump into the cloud to make digital healthcare more accessible: UC Davis Health partnered with AWS to roll out a digital health innovation center focused on health equity—we unpack why it matters and why more health systems may flock to AWS.

The news: Healthcare cloud company Clarify Health acquired provider-focused behavioral science platform Embedded Healthcare to scale value-based care (VBC) for health plans. More on the two companies:. Clarify Health’s AI-powered cloud analytics platform optimizes VBC contracts between providers and payers by analyzing metrics like provider performance and real-time population health insights.

Anthem, Humana JV could be a golden distro channel for DTx makers: The payers are developing a cloud-based pharmacy benefits management platform,—we unpack why its pricing transparency feature makes it a good choice for DTx vendors trying to get their therapies on drug formularies.

Signify’s cloud-based platform will have access to more provider and healthcare data that’ll improve how its analytics identify patients’ health risks and other VBC factors. How digital health can enable VBC: VBC models depend on actionable, quality metrics that can accurately assess and analyze healthcare costs, quality, and outcomes.

Google and The Harris Poll's recently released data shows how physicians unanimously say interoperability is a top priority—we unpack the obstacles preventing them from achieving it, and how cloud providers can help clear the path.

In 2019, it launched ConvergeHealth Connect—a suite of four digital health products targeting patient engagement, public health, and personalized care, all powered by Salesforce Health Cloud. In 2020, Deloitte launched MyPath for Hospital in Home solution via ConvergeHealth’s platform. It delivers personalized patient care via remote patient monitoring (RPM), virtual visits, and underlying analytics.

It could triple down on [that bet] and make some significant investments, post-acquisition, such as making internal R&D resources for additional AI and ML investments or accelerating the transition to cloud. II: What do you believe was the impetus behind this deal, from both sides?

Cloud adoption is expected to become mainstream in the next three years. According to the Accenture survey, 96% of healthcare executives worldwide said they would be in the cloud within that time frame. It is important to note, however, that not all workloads are well suited for the technology.

Telstra Ventures lists a broad range of focus, in cloud, security, network, consumer, and media. Managing director Mark Sherman told Crunchbase in February 2021 that building the ecosystem for cloud infrastructure investments is key to the 5G adoption strategy. These investments reflect a global pattern.

Microsoft expanded its partnership with global pharma giant UCB in February to accelerate drug discovery and development using Microsoft’s computational AI and cloud capabilities. Also in February, it scored a partnership with one of the largest health systems in the US, Kaiser Permanente, to improve its cloud capabilities and personalize patient care.

In June, Amazon launched a new functionality for its Halo wearable that measures movement and flexibility via a smartphone camera and cloud-based AI—but privacy concerns are still limiting consumer adoption.

The average time to identify and contain varied widely depending on the type of data breach, attack vector, factors such as the use of security AI and automation, and the cloud-modernization stage, IBM noted. Not-for-profit hospitals stand to lose more than money.

The news: CVS Health is deepening its Microsoft partnership to leverage the tech giant’s cloud services and AI tech. CVS is aiming to provide consumers with more personalized care and to streamline CVS healthcare employees' workflows. For context, CVS Health already uses Microsoft’s services like Text Analytics to digitize tasks in its pharmacies.

Moreover, Truveta has access to 15% of all health data in the US via its health system partnerships—combined with Microsoft’s cloud platform and AI-powered analytics, it could help providers make even faster and accurate clinical decisions.

Cloud and edge computing: The low latency can shift most heavy computing to the cloud, creating new opportunities for analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, encryption, etc.