How the Electronic Health Record Will Change the Future of Health Care
Genetic testing is expected to play a critical role in patient care in the near future. Advances in genomic research have the potential to impact medicine in very tangible and direct ways, from carrier screening to disease diagnosis and prognosis to targeted treatments and personalized medicine. How...
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description | Genetic testing is expected to play a critical role in patient care in the near future. Advances in genomic research have the potential to impact medicine in very tangible and direct ways, from carrier screening to disease diagnosis and prognosis to targeted treatments and personalized medicine. However, numerous barriers to widespread adoption of genetic testing continue to exist, and health information technology will be a critical means of addressing these challenges. Electronic health records (EHRs) are a digital replacement for the traditional paper-based patient chart designed to improve the quality of patient care. EHRs have become increasingly essential to managing the wealth of existing clinical information that now includes genetic information extracted from the patient genome. The EHR is capable of changing health care in the future by transforming the way physicians use genomic information in the practice of medicine. |
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spelling | pubmed-34472012012-09-25 How the Electronic Health Record Will Change the Future of Health Care Ronquillo, Jeremiah Geronimo Yale J Biol Med Focus: Educating Yourself in Bioinformatics Genetic testing is expected to play a critical role in patient care in the near future. Advances in genomic research have the potential to impact medicine in very tangible and direct ways, from carrier screening to disease diagnosis and prognosis to targeted treatments and personalized medicine. However, numerous barriers to widespread adoption of genetic testing continue to exist, and health information technology will be a critical means of addressing these challenges. Electronic health records (EHRs) are a digital replacement for the traditional paper-based patient chart designed to improve the quality of patient care. EHRs have become increasingly essential to managing the wealth of existing clinical information that now includes genetic information extracted from the patient genome. The EHR is capable of changing health care in the future by transforming the way physicians use genomic information in the practice of medicine. YJBM 2012-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3447201/ /pubmed/23012585 Text en Copyright ©2012, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Focus: Educating Yourself in Bioinformatics Ronquillo, Jeremiah Geronimo How the Electronic Health Record Will Change the Future of Health Care |
title | How the Electronic Health Record Will Change the Future of Health
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title_full | How the Electronic Health Record Will Change the Future of Health
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title_fullStr | How the Electronic Health Record Will Change the Future of Health
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title_full_unstemmed | How the Electronic Health Record Will Change the Future of Health
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title_short | How the Electronic Health Record Will Change the Future of Health
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title_sort | how the electronic health record will change the future of health
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topic | Focus: Educating Yourself in Bioinformatics |
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