Futurist Alvin Toffler once called technology “the great growling engine of change.” That’s truer today than ever before. Among the seriously complex problems technology innovators are helping the world take on—climate change, hunger and poverty, biodiversity, barriers to education—none is more urgent than advancing health science and improving care. Cloud-based high-performance computing capacity is helping medical researchers discover and develop new and safer treatments. Online registries and workflow software are revamping clinical trials to get life-saving drugs and vaccines to market faster. Repositories of medical history, genomic, demographic, and other forms of data are starting to give clinicians the information…
