L7.1 Genomic Medical Care: Envisioning the Workflow of the Future

Abstract

Genomic analysis is likely to be too intimidating and complex for practical adoption in health care in the near future. Without significant innovation in the way that data is delivered, a treating physician is unlikely to be able to make sense of genomic findings to guide disease management.We believe that the future will usher forward a new workflow. A treating physician will order a test through a genomic medicine-enabled health care institution, where cutting-edge genetic analysis products are used to deliver sequence results to trained molecular pathologists. Specially configured software applications will be used to review medical guidelines, explore available drug trials, and review the latest biomedical research to translate the patient's biological findings into insightful treatment considerations for the patient's physician. Every patient's test results, treatments, and medical outcomes will be stored in a secure, private database to be used for comparative analysis, in which prior patients’ genetic profiles (together with other relevant insights) can be used to illuminate new treatment considerations. In this manner, every patient becomes a participant in cutting-edge genomic research. Their treating physician will get a single, user-friendly report summarizing genetic findings and identifying potential treatment options to consider for their patient.In this session we will discuss a potential solution to enable this genomic medicine workflow.