10 Life Sciences Trends for 2016
Last year, we predicted six trends in life sciences IT that we believed would take place throughout the year. Turns out, we were right!
A few highlights from 2015: Companies that went public invested heavily in technology in order to successfully manage their growing business operations. A flurry of M&A activity, including the largest merger (Pfizer and Allergan) ever recorded in the pharmaceutical industry, triggered heavy consolidation and integration of systems and processes. Precision medicine, which relies heavily on Big Data analytics, garnered a tremendous amount of attention from the U.S. government and the medical community. More targeted therapies were approved than ever before.
While many of these trends will likely continue in 2016, this guide presents 10 new trends that we can also expect to see.