“Extracting patient data that already exists in EMRs could expedite the process of collecting data for genetic studies, according to “Electronic Medical Records for Genetic Research: Results of the eMERGE Consortium,” a study published in Science Translational Medicine.
In the study, Abel Kho, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at Chicago’s Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and colleagues investigated whether patients’ EMR data captured through routine care could identify disease phenotypes with sufficient positive and negative predictive values for use in genome-wide association studies.”
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CMIO, 25 April 2011
Abstract (Kho 2011)
