The EHR: Where medicine now takes place

Illinois-based NorthShore University HealthSystem, along with Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Wake Forest Baptist Health System, Medical University of South Carolina, Ochsner Health System, University of Arkansas, and the University of Nebraska are collaborating on “to precision medicine at the point of care, through the EMR.”

Focused on neurological disease, this consortium of leading hospitals is working to showcase how biobanking (in this case patient DNA) tied to specialized longitudinal EHR data derived from a neurological office visits can eventually be analyzed to conduct practice-based research, to make discoveries and ultimately to improve quality of care.

Precision medicine at the point of care is also a fundamental goal of Novaseek. Our core mission is to tie together biosamples and EHR data to create a more holistic, personalized picture of a patient’s disease.

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