Recently a Health Leaders Media story http://www.healthleadersmedia.com * noted “At Mt. Sinai Health System in New York, a combination of personalized medicine, natural language processing, and clever integration with electronic health record software is allowing clinicians to adjust medication selection and dosages based on patients’ genomic differences.”
“Personalized medicine is one of those technology topics that perpetually comes up in conversations about The Next Big Thing. Think combining genomics data with population health, throw in some predictive analytics, and you’ve got the basic idea.”
“At Mt. Sinai Health System in New York, a combination of personalized medicine, natural language processing, and clever integration with electronic health record software is allowing clinicians to adjust medication selection and dosages based on patients’ genomic differences.”
* to read the full Health Leaders Media article “Personalized Medicine Meets EHR Integration at Mt. Sinai” by Scott Mace, highlight and click on open hyperlink http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/TEC-306371/Personalized-Medicine-Meets-EHR-Integration-at-Mt-Sinai
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Jonathan M. Metsch, Dr.P.H., is Clinical Professor, Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; and Adjunct Professor, Baruch College ( C.U.N.Y.), Rutgers School of Public Health, and Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration
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