The Future Of The CIO In The Life Sciences

Information is the coin of the realm in biopharmaceuticals—but what will it take to make the vast reams of data now being generated in the transactional tsunami of modern healthcare truly useful to its users? To help answer this question, Pharm Exec recently hosted an editorial Roundtable with several company chief information officers (CIOs) and IMS Health, whose Institute for Healthcare Informatics, together with the Egon-Zehnder executive search firm, recently issued a report on how the CIO role must transform to make the “c-suite” cut as a key driver of internal innovation. The following are excerpts from the discussion—in the plain English CEOs prefer, no algorithms required.

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