Abstract
As research laboratories and clinics collaborate to achieve precision medicine, both communities are required to understand mandated electronic health/medical record (EHR/EMR) initiatives that will be fully implemented in all clinics in the United States by 2015. Stakeholders will need to evaluate current record keeping practices and optimize and standardize methodologies to capture nearly all information in digital format. Collaborative efforts from academic and industry sectors are crucial to achieving higher efficacy in patient care while minimizing costs. Currently existing digitized data and information are present in multiple formats and are largely unstructured. In the absence of a universally accepted management system, departments and institutions continue to generate silos of information. As a result, invaluable and newly discovered knowledge is difficult to access. To accelerate biomedical research and reduce healthcare costs, clinical and bioinformatics systems must employ common data elements to create structured annotation forms enabling laboratories and clinics to capture sharable data in real time. Conversion of these datasets to knowable information should be a routine institutionalized process. New scientific knowledge and clinical discoveries can be shared via integrated knowledge environments defined by flexible data models and extensive use of standards, ontologies, vocabularies, and thesauri. In the clinical setting, aggregated knowledge must be displayed in user-friendly formats so that physicians, non-technical laboratory personnel, nurses, data/research coordinators, and end-users can enter data, access information, and understand the output. The effort to connect astronomical numbers of data points, including ‘-omics’-based molecular data, individual genome sequences, experimental data, patient clinical phenotypes, and follow-up data is a monumental task. Roadblocks to this vision of integration and interoperability include ethical, legal, and logistical concerns. Ensuring data security and protection of patient rights while simultaneously facilitating standardization is paramount to maintaining public support. The capabilities of supercomputing need to be applied strategically. A standardized, methodological implementation must be applied to developed artificial intelligence systems with the ability to integrate data and information into clinically relevant knowledge. Ultimately, the integration of bioinformatics and clinical data in a clinical decision support system promises precision medicine and cost effective and personalized patient care.
Highlights
Clinical informatics is the application of informatics and information technology to support healthcare delivery services
As we move into the era of the $1,000 genome analysis [6] and the reality of mandatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) [7], the focus of bioinformatics has shifted from gathering data to analyzing the massive amounts of available data for direct application in patient care
Patient data require sequential processing by physicians to reach correct clinical conclusions, and for these conclusions to become knowledge. These issues highlight the need for EHR-based clinical decision support systems (CDSS) to translate clinical data points and information into knowledge that can be readily used by time-constrained physicians—knowledge that would decrease the incidence of errors
Summary
Clinical informatics is the application of informatics and information technology to support healthcare delivery services. Patient data require sequential processing by physicians to reach correct clinical conclusions, and for these conclusions to become knowledge These issues highlight the need for EHR-based CDSS to translate clinical data points and information into knowledge that can be readily used by time-constrained physicians—knowledge that would decrease the incidence of errors. One computerized order entry support system for renaltoxic and renal-cleared medications increased renal function-appropriate dosing and decreased the median length of stay by half a day [34] These systems serve a critical need, accounting for constantly-changing pharmaceutical guidelines and interactions and the substantial numbers of subspecialty physicians interacting with an individual patient. BRCAPRO, is a software program that predicts probabilities of carrying a deleterious mutation in
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