HealthIT Answers April 29, 2021
By Kevin Chaney, MGS, Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD, Courtney C. Rogers, MPH, Joshua C. Denny MD, MS and Jon White, ONC
Precision medicine creates treatment and prevention strategies that meet patient needs by considering individual variability in their genome, environment, and lifestyle. While precision medicine can revolutionize health care, it requires access to an unprecedented volume and variety of data, and an infrastructure that rapidly brings new discoveries to bear. Recently, we published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association that describes health IT’s vital role in precision medicine based on key insights from a series of ONC projects supporting the Precision Medicine Initiative.
Four key health IT needs for precision medicine are:
- Determining requirements...