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The Department of Health and Human Services has put together a team of experts working to integrate genomics into clinical information systems in an effort to better prevent, diagnose and treat disease using information on a patient's genetic makeup. HHS secretary Mike Leavitt said the genomics soon should play a much larger role in medicine and now is the time to begin incorporating genetic information in electronic health records.
Source: Government Health IT and The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.