Center for Quantitative Medicine presents
Justin Starren, MD, PhD, FACMI
Associate Professor and Chief Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics
Northwestern University
"Crosssing Omic Chasm: Why is it so hard"
Host - Thomas Agresta, MD, MBI; Professor, Center for Quantitative Medicine
Date - Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Time - 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location - Edmund & Arlene Grossman Auditorium CGSB, 400 Farmington Avenue (simulcast to ITE Building, Room 336 (UConn Storrs)
While the need for genomic decision support has been universally recognized and discussed in numerous papers, the number of actual implementations has been few.
Many commercial EHR vendors have stated publicly that they do not have near-term plans to store genomic data within the EHR itself, although they anticipate exposing genomic computerized decision support within their workflows. Several papers have explicitly commented on the need for Ancillary Genomic Systems (AGS) to mediate between the large volumes of genomic data that is anticipated and the limited data capacity of most EHR systems. The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network is a multi-institution network exploring the challenges of implementing GCDS in real-world situations.
This presentation will discuss the progress of eMERGE to date and explore the broader challenges of implementing widespread genomic decision support.
The talk will:
1) Discuss how genomic data differs from conventional EHR data
2) The architecture and function of an Anillary Genomic System
3) Workflow challenges in Genomic Decision Support
For more information, contact: Steve Demurjian at steve@engr.uconn.edu