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Clinical Information Systems in the Era of Personalized Medicine

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Scientific and technical advances continue to further our understanding of how genetic alterations affect human health and the development of disease. Integrating genomic findings in the delivery of patient care represents and exciting and evolving area of medicine. The capacity to interpret and leverage this new source of information, and to do so in a broad and high-throughput manner, via clinical information systems remains a key challenge. In this chapter, we focus on common areas that influence effective use and development of clinical information systems to support the use of genomic data in health care.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Jonathan Nowak & Lynn Bry

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    George Jabboure Netto

  2. Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Iris Schrijver

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Nowak, J., Bry, L. (2015). Clinical Information Systems in the Era of Personalized Medicine. In: Netto, G., Schrijver, I. (eds) Genomic Applications in Pathology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0727-4_18

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