NIH associate director for data science on the importance of “data to the biomedicine enterprise” | Scope Blog

"During his keynote speech at Big Data in Biomedicine 2014, Philip Bourne, PhD, the first permanent associate director for data science at the National Institutes of Health, shared how the federal agency hopes to capitalize on big data to accelerate biomedicine discovery, address scientific questions with potential societal benefit and promote open science. In the above video, he talks about how data 'is becoming increasingly important to the biomedical enterprise' and the NIH’s effort to coordinate strategies related to computation and informatics in biomedicine across its 27 institutes and centers, which effectively form the basis of improvements in health care across every major medical condition. 'Our goal is to create interoperability between these entities,' he says in the interview. 'We see data as the catalyst to create this cross talk across these respective institutes.'"