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Healthcare Provider Genomics Education Resource
Discipline-specific genomic competencies are knowledge and skills that a provider needs in order to perform specific functions in genomic healthcare. Competency-based healthcare education is an outcomes-based approach that uses competencies to organize and structure curricula and continuing education.
… to successfully practice as a genetic counselor. Medical School Education 2022 Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics (APHMG) consensus-based update of the core competencies for undergraduate medical education in genetics and genomics October 2022 The …
Research Funding
The Genomics-enabled Learning Health System (gLHS) Network aims to identify and advance approaches for integrating genomic information into existing learning health systems.
… Ph.D. Wesley Self, M.D., M.P.H. Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN Coordination for Demonstrating … care. LHS have gained traction due to advancements in electronic health records (EHRs) and health IT, which allow for improved data …
Genomics and Medicine
Starting in 2019, the American Journal of Human Genetics has published an annual feature identifying ten key advances in applying genomic information to clinical care that were reported in the previous 12 months of published literature. The Genomic Medicine Working Group has authored these reviews, based on its broader effort to identify notable accomplishments in genomic medicine on a monthly basis. From this larger set of published accomplishments, the working group has continued to select ten papers annually to be highlighted as the most significant.
… signatures of genetic epilepsies precede diagnosis in electronic medical records  Read the full review: Manolio TA, Narula J, Rupert …
News Release
Experts discussed the gaps, challenges and opportunities in genomics at Genomic Medicine Meeting VIII: NHGRI's Genomic Medicine Portfolio, sponsored by NHGRI.
… Steven Benowitz … Integrating genomics into medical settings is a chicken-or-the-egg proposition. … such as genomic testing and its integration into electronic health records, fragmented health care delivery systems and …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 6, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., celebrates the 25th anniversary of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC). a well-respected and highly used large-scale DNA sequencing center that exemplifies the evolution of the field of genomics and the ever-increasing abilities to produce prodigious amounts of genomic data.
… and an application programming interface to exchange Electronic Health Records (EHRs). FHIR provides an opportunity for the genomic … discrete healthcare systems? For example, the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network has been …
Event
NHGRI meeting focused on research that rapidly advances best practices for the implementation of genomic sequence data into clinical care.
… as well as research that combines biorepositories with electronic medical record systems for genomic discovery and genomic …
News Release
NIH researchers discover that while artificial intelligence (AI) tools can make accurate diagnoses from textbook-like descriptions of genetic diseases, the tools are significantly less accurate when analyzing summaries written by patients about their own health.
… models rely on concise, textbook-like language to evaluate medical questions. … National Institutes of Health (NIH) … Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). “For example, electronic health records and the conversations between doctors and patients …
The Genomics Landscape
In the February 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green recognizes Dr. Bill Gahl's achievements as Clinical Director.
… biochemical genetics within the NIH's Inter-Institute Medical Genetics Training Program, which he then directed … in dozens of prominent news features in the printed and electronic press (e.g., see next story). Known for his … in Genomic Medicine Genomics Videos Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network & Clinical Sequencing …
The Genomics Landscape
In the December 2, 2021 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., spotlights the re-opening of the Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington, D.C.
… Yu, M.D., Ph.D., Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School  John Tisdale, M.D., National Heart, Lung, … cancer, non-invasive prenatal screening, reliability of electronic health records, and importance of population screening. Some of the …
News Release
NHGRI has created a new publicly available digital archive and search aid for accessing documents related to the Human Genome Project and the history of genomics.
… Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa), and the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network, among others. Some …