Dr. Ware gave a keynote speech as part of the special satellite session “Information Technology for Health” at the prestigious World Health Summit held in Berlin, Germany, on October 24, 2012. His topic was information technology advances enabling standardization of patient-reported outcome (PRO) metrics and more comprehensive (integrated disease-specific and generic PROs), better integrated (traditional clinical and PRO information) and more efficient (more practical and more precise) PRO assessment systems.