Patient-Centered Precision Health In A Learning Health Care System: Geisinger's Genomic Medicine Experience

Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 May;37(5):757-764. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1557.

Abstract

Health care delivery is increasingly influenced by the emerging concepts of precision health and the learning health care system. Although not synonymous with precision health, genomics is a key enabler of individualized care. Delivering patient-centered, genomics-informed care based on individual-level data in the current national landscape of health care delivery is a daunting challenge. Problems to overcome include data generation, analysis, storage, and transfer; knowledge management and representation for patients and providers at the point of care; process management; and outcomes definition, collection, and analysis. Development, testing, and implementation of a genomics-informed program requires multidisciplinary collaboration and building the concepts of precision health into a multilevel implementation framework. Using the principles of a learning health care system provides a promising solution. This article describes the implementation of population-based genomic medicine in an integrated learning health care system-a working example of a precision health program.

Keywords: Genomic Medicine; Implementation Science; Learning Healthcare System; Population Health; Precision Health.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / organization & administration*
  • Female
  • Genomics*
  • Humans
  • Learning
  • Male
  • Patient-Centered Care / organization & administration*
  • Precision Medicine*
  • Program Development
  • Program Evaluation
  • United States