GIM faculty member Howard Levy, MD, PhD, is the last-named author of an article published online on December 27, 2011, by the Journal of Biomedical Informatics that considers the intersection of two rapidly developing areas of medical research, genetic medicine and the Electronic Medical Record. Dr. Levy's position as both the Clinical Director of Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine at Green Spring Station and a member of the faculty of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine uniquely qualifies him to address this aspect of personalized medicine. 

The article is entitled “Technical Desiderata for the Integration of Genomic Data into Electronic Health Records.” According to the work’s abstract, the authors sought to “describe the characteristics of biomolecular data that differentiate it from other classes of data commonly found in EHRs, enumerate a set of technical desiderata for its management in healthcare settings, and offer a candidate technical approach to its compact and efficient representation in operational systems.”

The article is available through PubMed by clicking on its title above.