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Ethical Considerations on Pediatric Genetic Testing Results in Electronic Health Records.

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BACKGROUND:Advances in technology and access to expanded genetic testing have resulted in more children and adolescents receiving genetic testing for diagnostic and prognostic purposes. With increased adoption of the electronic health record (EHR), genetic testing is increasingly resulted in the EHR. However, this leads to challenges in both storage and disclosure of genetic results, particularly when parental results are combined with child genetic results. PRIVACY AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS:Accidental disclosure and erroneous documentation of genetic results can occur due to the nature of their presentation in the EHR and documentation processes by clinicians. Genetic information is both sensitive and identifying, and requires a considered approach to both timing and extent of disclosure to families and access to clinicians. METHODS:This article uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore ethical issues surrounding privacy, confidentiality of genetic data, and access to genetic results by health care providers and family members, and provides suggestions in a stakeholder format for best practices on this topic for clinicians and informaticians. Suggestions are made for clinicians on documenting and accessing genetic information in the EHR, and on collaborating with genetics specialists and disclosure of genetic results to families. Additional considerations for families including ethics around results of adolescents and special scenarios for blended families and foster minors are also provided. Finally, administrators and informaticians are provided best practices on both institutional processes and EHR architecture, including security and access control, with emphasis on the minimum necessary paradigm and parent/patient engagement and control of the use and disclosure of data. CONCLUSION:The authors hope that these best practices energize specialty societies to craft practice guidelines on genetic information management in the EHR with interdisciplinary input that addresses all stakeholder needs.

journal_name

Appl Clin Inform

journal_title

Applied clinical informatics

authors

Kanungo S,Barr J,Crutchfield P,Fealko C,Soares N

doi

10.1055/s-0040-1718753

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-10-01 00:00:00

pages

755-763

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issn

1869-0327

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Ethical Considerations on Pediatric Genetic Testing Results in Electronic Health Records.