This session will highlight the importance of robust systems that promote data sharing. Moving from the general to the specific, the session will examine strategies that promote data transparency and access, a database that promotes data integration for biospecimens, and a database that integrates administrative and clinical data for quality and research.

Learning Objectives:
Explain the role of IT strategy in advancing drug discovery and development
Discuss how to integrate specimen management systems into overall laboratory workflow models
Describe a functional approach of a population-based patient-centric data tracking system for monitoring health economics and patients' outcomes.