Emerging Life Sciences Standards.

This article examines some of the current and emerging standards that are shaping the life sciences industry, and how pharmaceutical and biotech companies can benefit by implementing them. The ever-increasing complexity of developing new products and services benefits from the use of information systems technology. It informs that information technology standards facilitate interoperability, which is defined as the ability of two or more systems or components lo exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged.