Patients diagnosed with prostate cancer who choose "active surveillance" over immediate treatment can follow changes in their PSA over time to help with decisionmaking.
It is always easier to let an investigation languish or drift than to shut it down, and making the hard decision to cut one short frequently does not come with any immediate or obvious professional advantage.
This would mean that we have installed immediate safeguards around biodiversity as well as made substantive progress in mainstreaming biodiversity into governmental and societal decisionmaking, thereby taking us off the course of catastrophic destruction and on a course of sustainability.
But as the cloud resolves issues of data storage and management, and mobile and social technologies allow for easy and immediate information sharing, Big Data now can be crunched and shared throughout an organization, leading to better decision-making and outcomes for all sorts of enterprises.