Member Chi, I would say that you've already heard my colleagues speak to what it means for doctors in our country. It is one of the tools that we hope will facilitate the care we give.
I live this every day as a practising physician when I'm out there. The fact that we're still sending faxes to one another is not a great idea.
What we want to do—all of us, I think—is build interoperability to start connecting the dots an awful lot more. We want to have a pipeline of information that we collect once, collect well and use responsibly to effectively make every possible use of it that we can.
The simple way to think of the bill is to change from an attitude of data hoarding to one of public trust in public good. We want our data to be useful every chance we get.
In research, what this means for us is largely that we use it to do clinical trials better and release the data. It also means that we can connect—as we were talking about before—our early-term screening. We start thinking about using the data all the way from preconception to death in a way that we not only can help our patients but also transform our economy. One can easily think of generating tools and approaches, predictive algorithms—that's what our research is about—to be useful in a way that changes our medicine of the future.