The Optum secure, cloud-based health care platform is designed to help everyone involved in patient care communicate and collaborate more effectively to improve health outcomes.   Composed of a dashboard, development kits and a health application marketplace, the Optum cloud platform enables users – including patients, clinicians and health administrators – to create and implement decision-support and productivity-enhancing applications quickly and inexpensively, as well as to access essential health intelligence and share information in real time through one easy-to-use interface.