Health IT plays a key role in personalized medicine by (1) creating large cancer-specific data registries to identify effective treatments for specific cancers, (2) improving clinical trial efficiency through better recruitment and feasibility tools, and (3) using mobile health tools to gather new types of data from trial participants. Health IT can also bring the promise of personalized medicine to more patients by providing better information about available clinical trials and empowering patients through electronic medical records, patient portals, and online communities that support clinical trials.

1. Personalized
Medicine and
Health IT
John Sharp
Senior Manager
Personal Connected Health Alliance
HIMSS
August 11, 2015

2. Health IT
What role does Health IT play in
personalized medicine?

3. • Big Data
– Creating cancer-specific data
registries to find what works for
specific cancers
• Improving clinical trial efficiency
– Better tools for feasibility,
recruitment
• New ways to gather data from trial
participants
– Mobile health tools
What Health IT can offer

4. Health IT How can Health IT
bring the promise of
personalized
medicine to more
patients?

5. • Better information about available trials
– ResearchMatch.org
Health IT and Patients

6. • Electronic Medical Records and Patient portals which
enable:
– Appointment requests
– Medication refills
– Open Notes
– Lab results
And empower patients through access to data
Health IT and Patients

7. • Online communities which support clinical trials
– SmartPatients.com
Health IT and Patients