EHR Intelligence August 24, 2020
The development of the ONC’s final interoperability rule could make precision medicine a reality in the future.
While the majority of medical treatments are geared to the average patient, precision medicine aims to cater to the individual and connect each patient with personalized treatment. However, EHRs are currently incapable of providing this type of customized care, and further optimization and increased interoperability are needed to achieve this type of care.
As defined by the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), precision medicine is “an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person.”
This concept isn’t exactly new. For example, a patient who requires a blood transfusion is not given...
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