MobiHealth News April 20, 2023
At HIMSS23, panelists discussed how genomics could improve patient care and the challenges to implementing genetic testing programs.
CHICAGO – Implementing precision medicine programs could allow health systems to diagnose disease more quickly or predict a patient’s response to a specific mediation, said panelists at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition.
But there are challenges to putting together an effective genomics program, said Jackie Rice, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Frederick Health.
“Outside of a few specialties – mother-baby, oncology – most of our providers don’t have advanced training in genomics,” she said. “Yeah, they might have a class of two, but they don’t have that advanced training for how they’re going to...
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