Enough Health Care Data for an Army: The Million Veteran Program
The holy grail of medicine is therapy that is customized for the patient. But to get there, health care researchers need huge amounts of data to help identify which genes affect health. The Million Veteran Program has tapped one of the largest cohorts available — U.S. military personnel — to obtain the dataset, but managing the security of this sensitive data is a challenge. In a Q&A, two of the project's lead scientists, J. Michael Gaziano and Saiju Pyarajan, explain the process.