Health IT Analytics November 16, 2016
Interoperability and access to big data are must-haves if providers, patients, and precision medicine researchers are to collaborate on a cure for cancer.
The United States healthcare system still has a long way to go before it develops the seamless health data interoperability required to take on the most pressing precision medicine challenges, including finding cures for cancer.
According to a November report from the President’s Cancer Panel, health IT could be an extremely effective weapon in the fight against cancer and other serious diseases, but a lack of big data interoperability, patient access to data, and a fragmented research environment may be holding back stakeholders from making key breakthroughs.
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