GeneInsight SuiteSM

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Core Infrastructure

GeneInsight LabSM - tools provided to laboratories to assist with genetic variant knowledge management and interpretative report automation.

  • GeneInsight variant knowledge management database
  • Genetic Variant Interpretation Engine (GVIE)

GeneInsight ClinicSM - a standalone hosted clinician interface to enable delivery of original patient genetic test results and future test result updates to clinicians.

 

Data Connectivity - Enables transfer of genetic test results between laboratories and providers.

  • VariantWire®

The GeneInsight Suite of IT tools have been developed to address some of the most critical challenges to enabling broad clinical utilization of genetic testing, a key step towards the promise of personalized medicine. These challenges include the need to streamline the clinical testing process, manage the vast amounts of data generated in genetic testing, generate clinically useful interpretations from these data and channel this information efficiently and effectively to clinicians to impact patient care. Many of these challenges are experienced by the laboratories providing genetic testing and interpretative reports and the providers who consume this information and translate it into patient care. GeneInsight® assets have been developed through close collaboration between laboratory technicians, laboratory managers, geneticists, IT developers and practicing physicians to address the distinct yet interrelated needs of laboratories and providers.

GeneInsight delivers the IT infrastructure needed to overcome these challenges. Based on a set of IT assets designed to support genetic testing, the Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine IT team has built a solution to provide broad support for genetic testing processes in clinical settings.

These assets consist of tools designed for genetic testing laboratories to assist in the storage and management of genetic variant information and the creation of interpretative reports, an electronic data transfer hub to connect testing labs with ordering clinicians to transmit results, and a standalone interface for providers to access and use patient genetic information in a clinical setting. This provider interface is capable of delivering patient specific alerts to clinicians when new information is entered into a source knowledge repository thereby helping clinicians stay up to date on their patient’s genetic profiles.

The GeneInsight Suite interacts closely with our GIGPAD infrastructure to provide an end-to-end solution for a molecular diagnostic testing laboratory.

Diagram of GeneInsight Infrastructure Impact on Clinical Genetic Testing Process

Note: VariantWire does not yet support Patient Identification or Order Entry - our goal is to enhance the suite to provide these functions in the future.

The GeneInsight Suite is classified in the USA as an exempt class I medical device and is subject to FDA general controls and software quality system regulations for medical devices.