HHS panel says EHRs should offer 'just-in-time' education in genetics
An HHS advisory panel says that EHRs can help educate healthcare professionals on the rapidly evolving field of genetics. "This approach involves the EHR 'understanding' where the provider is in the patient workflow so that when the query [about genetic factors that may affect testing or treatment decisions] is executed the provider is taken to content that is highly likely to be relevant," says a draft report from the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society. The "just-in-time education" embedded in an EHR has shown to be a faster way of answering such questions than standard search engines. FierceEMR
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