Rethinking Health Information Technology on the Journey to Personalized Medicine

Health care and life sciences organizations have long recognized the potential for a convergence of their 2 disciplines, envisioning a bidirectional information pipeline between bench and bedside that would facilitate the development of more personalized and effective treatments. For several years, the health care community has struggled to make progress on this front in the face of multiple challenges that range from institutional objections to change, to security/privacy concerns, to inadequate funding, to technology limitations.