Colleagues,
As reported in Occupational Health & Safety .... About 75% of genetics experts, primary care doctors and electronic health records vendors and specialists interviewed as part of a study on the potential role of EHR systems in storing and using genetic data said the EHRs used today fall short of meeting the demands of genetic/genomic medicine...
... EHR systems still need to have a new structure, standardization and functionality for genetic data to be used in health care ...
Read on at:
http://ohsonline.com/articles/2009/07/24/study-finds-electronic-hea...
ENJOY!
CC
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