Feasibility of incorporating genomic knowledge into electronic medical records for pharmacogenomic clinical decision support

Casey L. Overby, Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, James I. Hoath, Ira J. Kalet, David L. Veenstra

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Abstract

In pursuing personalized medicine, pharmacogenomic (PGx) knowledge may help guide prescribing drugs based on a person's genotype. Here we evaluate the feasibility of incorporating PGx knowledge, combined with clinical data, to support clinical decision-making by: 1) analyzing clinically relevant knowledge contained in PGx knowledge resources; 2) evaluating the feasibility of a rule-based framework to support formal representation of clinically relevant knowledge contained in PGx knowledge resources; and, 3) evaluating the ability of an electronic medical record/electronic health record (EMR/EHR) to provide computable forms of clinical data needed for PGx clinical decision support. Findings suggest that the PharmGKB is a good source for PGx knowledge to supplement information contained in FDA approved drug labels. Furthermore, we found that with supporting knowledge (e.g. IF age <18 THEN patient is a child), sufficient clinical data exists in University of Washington's EMR systems to support 50% of PGx knowledge contained in drug labels that could be expressed as rules.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberS10
JournalBMC Bioinformatics
Volume11
Issue numberSUPPL. 9
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 28 2010
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Structural Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics

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