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CC BY 4.0 · ACI open 2021; 05(02): e54-e58
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1729981
Invited Editorial

Facilitating Genetics Aware Clinical Decision Support: Putting the eMERGE Infrastructure into Practice

Casey Overby Taylor
1   Departments of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
2   Geisinger Health System, Genomic Medicine Institute, Danville, Pennsylvania, United States
,
Luke V. Rasmussen
3   Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
,
Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik
3   Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
,
Cynthia A. Prows
4   Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
,
David A. Dorr
5   Departments of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States
,
Lipika Samal
6   Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
,
Samuel Aronson
7   Partners Personalized Medicine, Partners HealthCare, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
› Author Affiliations Funding This study received its financial support from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute (grant numbers: U01HG6379, U01HG8679, U01HG8676, and U01HG8673) and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (grant: U01HG8666).
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Abstract

This editorial provides context for a series of published case reports in ACI Open by summarizing activities and outputs of joint electronic health record integration and pharmacogenomics workgroups in the NIH-funded electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network. A case report is a useful tool to describe the range of capabilities that an IT infrastructure or a particular technology must support. The activities we describe have informed infrastructure requirements used during eMERGE phase III, provided a venue to share experiences and ask questions among other eMERGE sites, summarized potential hazards that might be encountered for specific clinical decision support (CDS) implementation scenarios, and provided a simple framework that captured progress toward implementing CDS at eMERGE sites in a consistent format.

Keywords

editorial - case report - genomics - pharmacogenomics - clinical decision support requirements - gathering information technology - infrastructure


Publication History

Received: 30 June 2020

Accepted: 29 January 2021

Article published online:
06 July 2021

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