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Implications of Genomics for Clinical Informatics

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Bioinformatics; Biomedical informatics; Clinical genetics; Clinical genomics; Medical genetics

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Integration of genetic test results, generated in the clinical laboratory, into the electronic medical record, in a fully structured format enabling enhanced security, contextual views, clinical decision support, pharmacovigilance, disease management, outcomes and quality assessment.

Historical Background

Clinical genetics got its start in 1948 with the founding of the American Society of Human Genetics, which formalized a scientific approach to the study of human genetics [11]. Traditionally clinical genetics requires practitioners to function as data integrators. Like traditional healthcare, tests are ordered and results returned as interpretive reports delivered in paper form. Understanding the composite picture of the phenotype and genotypeof the patient requires transcribing key signs, symptoms, test values and their clinical interpretation into yet another...

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  1. Harvard Medical School – Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics, Boston, MA, USA

    Mollie Ullman-Cullere, Eugene Clark & Samuel Aronson

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  1. Mollie Ullman-Cullere
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Director, Clinical Programs, CIGNA Healthcare, Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA

    Vipul Kashyap

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Ullman-Cullere, M., Clark, E., Aronson, S. (2016). Implications of Genomics for Clinical Informatics. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_194-2

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