Genetic health care
deCODEhealth provides you with tools to integrate the best in genetic science into the preventive care of your patients. Just as family history is essential in evaluating risk factors for various common diseases, genetic risk information is rapidly becoming another important part of planning preventive care. Indeed, deCODE health´s tests focus on genetic risk assessments for medical conditions that can either be improved with lifestyle changes or have better treatment options if caught early.
As a healthcare professional you can order, receive and interpret genetic tests for your patients. Create a deCODEHealth account today, and make the most of what genetic science has to offer in enhancing the preventive care of your patients.
Outlining patient risk empowering prevention
When you have created your deCODEhealth account you can access the secure and password protected account online and review your patients’ deCODEme genetic risk assessment results. You can also choose whether or not you wish to be visible and searchable in our online registry for deCODEme customers looking for a healthcare provider authorized to order and interpret genetic risk assessment tests.
Detailed result reports Accessible patient handouts
deCODEHealth provides you with medically relevant information presented in both an online secure environment as well as in printer-friendly reports for you and your patient. Results from the deCODEme genetic risk assessments for over 50 common diseases and traits, are easy to review by sorting and filtering on the basis of various parameters. Very importanly, you can also add comments and suggestions for your patients to review online or in their patient handouts during your consultation.
Stories of prevention from customers and physicians
See how physicians and other healthcare professionals are using new and scientifically established genetic information to improve the preventive care and ultimately to benefit thehealth of their patients. Watch interviews with healthcare professionals who are already familiar with our genetic risk assessments and listen to our customers’ stories, for their personal experience on how geneticrisk assessments have benefited their preventive actions or, led to early disease detection.
Using genetic screening in patient care
Unlike traditional genetic tests for Mendelian traits, genetic risk tests for common diseases have characteristics similar to many conventional medical diagnostic tests, such as cholesterol level or the PSA test. Although traditional genetic tests results may sometimes have a very large impact on the individual, their public health impact may eventually be less than that of the risk tests for high prevalence diseases. The risk results should be taken into consideration together with other risk factor such as the patients health records, family history and other life-style and environmental factors. In providing patients with such important health information it is important for a trained physician to assist them in analyzing and understanding it.
Genetic risk prediction
As a general practitioner or a disease specialist you will benefit from including modern genetic risk prediction in your practice. Becoming a part of deCODEhealth will enable you to bring this type of information into the clinical practice of preventive medicine. With deCODE genetics you will get direct access to the scientists who have lead the discovery of genetic variants for common diseases and were the first to introduce a personalized genomic service and diagnostic products which quality and scientific rigor is second to none.
Get statistics from your patients for clinical research
Patient disease feedback is integrated into deCODEme and deCODEhealth to facilitate clinical research. Physicians can rapidly review and edit their patients answers if necessary. Likewise, dashboards will be provided to review local patient disease statistics against the statistics from other patient populations. Sophisticated query tools will also be provided that enable physicians to define a subset of their patients based on a combination or genetic risk estimates or questionnaire answers, e.g. to notify them about a new treatment program.