“A new electronic tool that will put family medical history at doctors’ fingertips – alerting them to a patient’s increased risk for birth defects or pregnancy complications – will be developed through a three-year cooperative agreement with a $1.2 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, Genetic Services Branch.
The National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) will lead the project and will work with the March of Dimes, the Genetic Alliance, and the Newton Wellesley Hospital of Partners Healthcare to adapt or create a new tool doctors can use to gather a woman’s consistent family history information and analyze it immediately to improve patient care.”
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EMR, EMR Software, Electronicmedicalrecord’s, 9 October 2009
