At its core, population genomics aligns patient health information with genomic data for large, all-comer cohorts of patients across health systems, communities and regions. A successful program unites medical professionals with other key healthcare stakeholders including researchers and industry, in collaborations that have accelerated improvements in patient health and health system performance. Learn more about how Helix helps health systems implement population genomics in this video.
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James Lu:
With Population Genomics, we're going to be able to diagnose diseases early when we can still prevent them. And that means catching cancers before they even form or finding out that you might have risk for heart disease before you even have heart disease. And making sure that people live longer and healthier lives.
Elissa Levin:
Heart disease, cancer. There are actionable genetic variants that the majority of people who have them don't actually know that they're walking around with these. If we could identify these early, which we have, we found that almost 90% of people who had one of these actionable variants had not been identified. It's in part because we have very restrictive guidelines, and in part because we just have not yet made this a standard-of-care type of test.
Sarah Bobulsky:
Helix offers an end-to-end platform for Population Genomics. And what this means is that we help health systems with every single step of the process, from recruiting and engaging participants into their community research to collecting their samples, to processing the sample in the lab, and most importantly, to deliver results both to their patient as well as to their healthcare provider.
Craig Newman:
At one of our partners at Renowned Health, one in 75 of their patients actually had an underlying risk. And of those folks who are at risk, 90%, there's no information on the electronic health record. How can we manage care or think about care delivery models if we don't know what's actually happening with our patients?
James Lu:
Today, when you go see your physician, they have a general assessment of you, but in the future with Population Genomics, they're really going to be able to personalize your care for you in particular.
