[Sigia-l] IA in Biotech

[Ziya Oz]

I was reading in BioIT World (Oracle CEO) Larry Ellison's inimitable views
on privacy and the clinical trial process:

"You think your health records are private. I'll tell you what - half your
health records are private because they're lost. The other half are in a
manila envelope, sitting on a shelf, being read by a 16-year-old who's
working part-time for your doctor, bored to death,'' Ellison said.
[...]
"If a million people go untreated and die, the FDA thinks that's OK. If a
million people get treated with a drug, and many are saved but two people
are killed by the drug, then the FDA thinks that's really bad," Ellison
said. "It is really scandalous today that the FDA is so cautious about the
delivery of a drug that may have such a bad side effect, and therefore so
slow taking drugs through clinical trials. If we had the clinical records,
then I could screen you for toxicity for this drug."

<http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/050702_report260.html>

It's no secret that information management and delivery is a huge issue in
this field. Is there anyone here involved with IA (not so much broadly in
healthcare but more specifically) in biotech and bioinformatics?

Best,

Ziya