SMART precision cancer medicine: a FHIR-based app to provide genomic information at the point of care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Precision cancer medicine (PCM) will require ready access to genomic data within the clinical workflow and tools to assist clinical interpretation and enable decisions. Since most electronic health record (EHR) systems do not yet provide such functionality, we developed an EHR-agnostic, clinico-genomic mobile app to demonstrate several features that will be needed for point-of-care conversations.

Methods

Our prototype, called Substitutable Medical Applications and Reusable Technology (SMART)® PCM, visualizes genomic information in real time, comparing a patient's diagnosis-specific somatic gene mutations detected by PCR-based hotspot testing to a population-level set of comparable data. The initial prototype works for patient specimens with 0 or 1 detected mutatio

SUBMITTER: Warner JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6080684 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature