"If by nationalism you mean hoarding data, that just isn't happening,'' George Church told me.
For starters, these companies are able to hoard data, which allows them to become smarter in learning about their customers.
It also hoards data and fine-tunes options, which make it hard for people to control what happens with their data, much less leave.
Silicon Valley companies are intent on using apps and mobile devices to overrun what Friend has called the "medical-industrial complex". The problem is that hospitals and research groups are notorious for hoarding data, in many cases because they are legally bound to do so by state and federal privacy regulations.
The biggest problem is that we hoard data.
In an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web takes social networks to task for hoarding data.
"They are hoarding data, and they haven't figured out what data to extract, and how to extract it," he says.
Fader and Bradlow argue that companies are taking on undue risk to their reputations by hoarding data with little business benefits.
People can be territorial creatures and often, unbeknownst to you, employees are hoarding data and access -- and while this is how traditional companies operated in the past, this is antithetical to the social organization.
In brief: data scientists say clinical researchers are hoarding data to advance their careers, clinical researchers say data scientists are seeking access to data to advance their careers and each group believes the other is disingenuously claiming to be motivated by an interest in the quality of science and in the care of patients.
As things stand, laboratories seemingly have no way to earn a return on these investments, other than by hoarding data as trade secrets and using their databases to add value to their own genetic testing services.
