<div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#ff0000">But there is another big potential benefit of the wider use and sharing of patient information — medical research.</font></b> Mr. Keating himself calls it a “huge crowdsourcing opportunity for research.” Not surprisingly, he has offered up his own data for several research projects.<div><br><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/using-patient-data-to-democratize-medical-discovery">http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/using-patient-data-to-democratize-medical-discovery</a></div></div>