Bio-IT World March 4, 2020

Data is the most valuable resource on the market today, Eric Topol told the crowd at the Molecular Medicine TriConference in San Francisco this week. At least according to the Dark Web, which, the founder and director of Scripps Research Translational Institute and cardiologist reported, holds medical data at five times the worth of personal financial data.

And there is a lot of it. We’ve long since passed data measurements in the terabyte, petabtye or even exabyte quantities, move now into zettabytes and yottabytes. Beyond that the nomenclature is up for debate. Topol recommends “helluvabyte.”

But unlike in Estonia, individuals don’t own and can’t access all of their health data, and it hasn’t improved healthcare for patients. In truth, we...

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