Ongoing聽advances in data capture, storage, and analysis have the potential to exponentially accelerate life science research and revolutionize medical treatments and care.聽Standing between us and this bright future are a cluster of overlapping challenges in聽information technology (IT)聽modernization, organizational design and culture, and information security and patient privacy. Overcoming these challenges will improve American healthcare in a variety of ways, most of all by allowing the health sector as a whole to unlock the power of big data to transform and reform the healthcare experience and expedite advances in life science research, medical product development, and patient care.聽
