Introducing HL7 FHIR Genomics Operations: a developer-friendly approach to genomics-EHR integration.

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Enabling clinicians to formulate individualized clinical management strategies from the sea of molecular data remains a fundamentally important but daunting task. To manage such a large volume of dynamic and complex data, new models of genomics-EHR integration are needed.

🔑 Key Findings

• Here, we describe efforts towards a new paradigm in genomics-electronic health record (HER) integration, using a standardized suite of FHIR Genomics Operations that encapsulates the complexity of molecular data so that precision medicine solution developers can focus on building applications.
• FHIR Genomics Operations essentially "wrap" a genomics data repository, presenting a uniform interface to applications.
• More importantly, operations encapsulate the complexity of data within a repository and normalize redundant data representations-particularly relevant in genomics, where a tremendous amount of raw data exists in often-complex non-FHIR formats.

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