July/August SNPits Summary

The July/August issue of UF Health Personalized Medicine Program's e-newsletter, SNPits, reviews a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association focused on genomic information in the electronic health record (EHR).  The authors of the study looked at how EHRs currently display genomic and genetic information, and how to optimize and improve upon it.  They concluded that the way that genomic information is stored and displayed affects the usefulness of the information, and made several recommendations, including development of clinical decision support (CDS) for genetic results.  Read more.