<div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#ff0000">The biggest phenomenon that is impacting healthcare is not the data revolution or the open data movement. It is the outing of the medical profession and the biomedical research enterprise</font></b> which commenced with the Institute of Medicine’s report “To Err is Human” [pdf] in 1999. In 2013, we were dealt back-to-back blows with the National Academy of Sciences’ report “Shorter Lives, Poorer Health” [pdf] and The Economist piece “Unreliable research: Trouble at the lab”. The medical profession (and the entire healthcare industry for that matter) has not been functioning as well as we thought it did. “<b><font color="#ff0000">Half of what we know might be wrong, and the other half useless</font></b>,” is perhaps the most damning appraisal of the state of medical knowledge that came from Professor John Ioannidis in his editorial “How Many Contemporary Medical Practices are Worse than Doing Nothing or Doing Less?”.<div>
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</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#0000ff">A very good reason for open access/data, improved health care.</font></b></div><br></div></div>