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4 Ways Health IT, EHRs Can Advance Precision Medicine

The ONC is attempting to propel precision medicine through API utilization, EHR integration, policy development, and data standardization.

Health IT Precision Medicine

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By Christopher Jason

- Healthcare stakeholders must enhance and address health IT data, health IT infrastructure, EHR integration, and policy development to achieve precision medicine, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) said in a new blog post.    

Precision medicine aims to improve healthcare by customizing patient care to specific patient needs.

Advancing precision medicine requires establishing an evidence base through extensive research built on genomic data at a unique scale. But as precision medicine data becomes increasingly complex and available, health IT and EHRs must evolve to integrate, interpret, and deliver this data.