The large amount and extreme complexity of the data that results from genetic testing are major challenges in the personalized medicine area. Completed genetic records are not typically provided to patients or physicians because they carry too much data to put in a paper record and many physicians would not be able to make effective use of the complicated data. There was a huge amount of validation testing that had to be done to ensure information accuracy, said Aronson.

Another challenge is to make the genetic data practical to use by most physicians. We ™ll take this information and work with genetics specialists to write programs and create protocols that will assist doctors, said Stan Huff, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Intermountain. A physician will not need to be an expert in family medicine and genetics to effectively use this information for the benefit of his or her patients ”our programs will help.

It ™s a privilege to provide the software technology that helped enable the attainment of this significant test milestone, said Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems Vice President of Strategic Planning. InterSystems is committed to the ongoing research and development that results in breakthroughs for information technology and we applaud PCPGM and Intermountain for this leap forward in personalized medicine.

SOURCE InterSystems Corporation