Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is developing digital tools to incorporate tailored medical data on patients into the EHR.
At the health system's Center for Individualized Medicine, a team built a digital platform to safely house "omics" data — including genetics (genomics), proteins (proteomics) and chemical changes (metabolomics) — in the cloud for clinicians and researchers to access, according to an Oct. 30 Mayo Clinic article.
"We hope to make this the standard of care," said Eric Klee, PhD, the center's Everett J. and Jane M. Hauck Midwest Associate Director of Research and Innovation, in the article. "We're building a future where precision medicine is no longer the exception but the expectation."
Meanwhile, his colleague Cherisse Marcou, PhD, and her team created an artificial intelligence tool to quickly summarize genomics data in the EHR to simplify test selection.
"Embedding genomic data into the patient's chart in a way that is easy to locate and access — right there, when and where it is needed — will assist doctors in making important decisions and advance the future of genomically informed medicine," said Dr. Marcou, co-director of the center's Digital Omics Program and co-director and vice chair of IT and bioinformatics in the Clinical Genomics Laboratory. "For patients waiting for answers, this access could potentially mean less time spent in uncertainty and quicker guidance on treatment and management options."