But in a convergence of methodical planning and
patient alliance building - the «systematic approach» - the reformers were on a roll, one that establishment Michigan Republicans came to embrace and promised to bankroll.
Their proposed «global
alliance,» as they call it for now in a white paper, aims to develop standards — analogous to protocols for
building Internet web pages — that will enable researchers around the world in fields from cancer to rare diseases to securely share and study
patients» genome sequences and clinical information.