MEDITECH Integrates Genomics Into Their EHR

Genomics is one of the most exciting parts of healthcare.  It’s also one of the most complex and challenging topics out there.  As genomic sequencing prices have dropped and genomic research has accelerated, I know of no area of healthcare that’s more exciting than genomics.

While genomics has shown so much progress and promise, I’ll admit that any genomics discussion gets complex really quickly.  With that complexity, I’ve always wondered how EHR vendors were going to approach genomics.  We all know that genomic medicine will eventually get to the bedside, but how it was going to get there wasn’t clear to me.  In fact, I’d often talk about EHR APIs and say that these APIs were needed because there was no way an EHR vendor was going to do all that was needed for genomic medicine (let alone hundreds of other third party apps).

While I still think this is true when it comes to APIs, MEDITECH recently announced their new MEDITECH Expanse Genomics solution that gives a great view on how MEDITECH is working to move genomic medicine to the clinician.  I’d describe their approach as making the key genomic data available to clinicians at the bedside and layering on specific genomic decision support (that’s my new term for clinical decision support based on genomics) using their partner FDB (First Databank).

This seems like a logical first step for an EHR vendor to get into the world of genomics and precision medicine.  To dive deeper into what this new MEDITECH Genomics solution means for their users, I was happy to sit down with Dr. William Dailey, CMIO at Golden Valley Memorial Hospital, Hoda Sayed-Friel, Executive Vice President at MEDITECH, and Jennifer Ford, Product Manager of Genomics at MEDITECH, to really understand how this new solution worked and how it would help clinicians to leverage genomics in their care.

In the interview, we discuss how genomic data is being integrated with the MEDITECH Expanse EHR and how that can impact patient care.  They also share some areas of genomics they’re still working on, and some of the details of how MEDITECH worked hard to make genomic data it’s own data set rather than trying to layer it on another area of the EHR where it doesn’t completely fit.

If you want a preview of how genomics is being integrated with the EHR, you’ll enjoy this interview:

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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