Introduction

The medical, health-care, and life-sciences industries are experiencing data growth and now connectivity at phenomenal levels, a circumstance that promises solutions for some of our most worrisome problems. From cancer cures to better infant disease prevention to improvements in service and quality of care, the lifeblood of the new medical world is data, and wired and wireless networks are the blood vessels. Inescapable Data devices will generate volumes of interconnected data, and then processing power (prohibitively huge only a few years ago) will tease out relationships and automate interactions.