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Leader in the Development of the Electronic Health Record is Integrating Whole Genome Analysis

August 4, 2011 | Gerry Higgins

The pioneer in the Electronic Health Record is the U.S. Department of Veterans Administration, with the development of the the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA). They are again on the forefront of the design and development of a new VistA Electronic Health Record (EHR), using an eclectic open source model involving academia, the ...

The Potential of Whole Genome Analysis for Clinical Diagnostics

June 20, 2011 | Gerry Higgins

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is hosting a meeting on July 19 of this year called "Integrating Large-Scale Genomic Information into Clinical Practice: A Workshop." It couldn't come at a better time, as the cost has dropped low enough so that clinicians can begin to interrogate whole patient genomes and transcriptomes, and access these data ...