I think there's tremendous potential with things like the development of electronic health records and electronic medical records, but I also think that we, as a country, need to take specific steps and be clear about what we want. Standardization of data fields and definitions is not the stuff of headlines, but in fact it is very important for the data to be useful.
Unless we focus and are clear about what data we want to be collected in the same way and reported centrally, my sense is that there will be local solutions built, and we simply won't necessarily build in the capacity to share it centrally.
My own view is there's much opportunity in the future, but I think we will have to take specific steps and actions to ensure that we're clear about what data we think is useful.