The health information revolution is coming. Stakeholders across the U.S. health care system are contemplating how health information technology will transform the health care industry. Some could gain big and some could face big challenges. We believe two things are certain. The revolution is coming. And it all starts and ends with the patient.

Read the recently released life sciences point of view, Health Information Technology Value Chain: A Life Sciences Perspective, to learn more about the health information revolution. This point of view addresses the major challenges that life sciences companies are facing such as falling research and development productivity, lengthy clinical trials, growing regulatory scrutiny in new medicines and the lack of deep insights into the needs for pharmacogenics products. It also explores how the many pain points life sciences companies are experiencing are related to a lack of patient data. Moving forward, companies will need to rely on patient-centric data as the new paradigm for planning and driving future growth.

Life sciences companies need to prepare themselves organizationally and technically for the health information revolution through the implementation of interoperable patient information exchanges. This paper discusses how companies can prepare and what steps can be taken today to be ready for tomorrow.

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