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Seattle's Sage Bionetworks seeks a drug-discovery revolution
february 2012 by ruraldreams
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Patients might not know it yet, but they actually have the real power, Friend believes. Sage is developing tools to allow patients to be stewards of their own data, whether it's at their doctors' office or in pharma's hands. The Josh Sommerses of the world will one day be able to say, you want me to join your research? Then share your data.
If patients refuse to play with the nonsharers . . . it's a whole new world.
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Patients might not know it yet, but they actually have the real power, Friend believes. Sage is developing tools to allow patients to be stewards of their own data, whether it's at their doctors' office or in pharma's hands. The Josh Sommerses of the world will one day be able to say, you want me to join your research? Then share your data.
If patients refuse to play with the nonsharers . . . it's a whole new world.
february 2012 by ruraldreams