This week, Dr. John Loonsk and I had the pleasure of speaking at the Government Health IT conference during a session called "Clearing the Air on Cloud: Beyond the Hype and Puns."We had the opportunity to discuss the "nuts and bolts" of federal cloud computing—the deployment and service models, the benefits, the push to cloud service adoption, cloud security considerations and case studies, such as CGI's Healthcare Quality Compare, a cloud-created web- and mobile-based application that won the Health 2.0 online developer challenge. More...