Pharma in the digital age: how to future-proof corporate data

Twenty-first century data is providing the data-heavy pharma industry with a modern dilemma: how to preserve corporate information when technological development is accelerating so fast, writes Dominic Johnstone, head of information management services at Crown Records Management.

Such is the pace of progress that patient documents and research will be virtually unreadable within 10 years, crowded out by big data ‘noise’.

However, all could change for the better if pharma businesses consider how their data is stored, and how it will be accessed in the future.