Pre-competitive data sharing between pharma and with academia

As part of NIH's Public-Private Partnership Program, a meeting was held in Washington, DC (4/28/2011) that brought together many from industry (particularly the pharmaceutical companies) and academia around the idea of pre-competitive data sharing for opportunistic acceleration of discovery pipelines while remaining respectful of privacy and property. i2b2 serves as the foundational platform proposed for this effort, in its implementation within TransMart. It will remain to be seen whether the governance and competitive concerns can be managed successfully in this initiative triggered by Eric Perakslis.