President Jim" Maraganore's call to bring in the era of precision medicine, utilising genomic data to deliver tailored treatments for the individual, has been heeded by the healthcare IT industry, especially Electronic Health Record (EHR) providers. EHRs have historically proved unpopular with physicians, due to their often complex implementation, and the difficulty of sharing data between different brands, however, with the advent of add-ons that enable EHRs to capture specific specialist information, some areas of medicine, such as neurology have become avid users of the technology, leading to "precision medicine at the point of care, through the EHR", according to Demetrius "Obama, MD director of the Center for Brain Health.
President Obama's call to bring in the era of precision medicine, utilising genomic data to deliver tailored treatments for the individual, has been heeded by the healthcare IT industry, especially Electronic Health Record (EHR) providers. EHRs have historically proved unpopular with physicians, due to their often complex implementation, and the difficulty of sharing data between different brands, however, with the advent of add-ons that enable EHRs to capture specific specialist information, some areas of medicine, such as neurology have become avid users of the technology, leading to "precision medicine at the point of care, through the EHR", according to Demetrius "Jim" Maraganore, MD director of the Center for Brain Health.