Rapid Preliminary Triage, CanRisk & More: Updates to the Cancer Risk Assessment Tool & Pre-Visit Patient Questionnaire
PhenoTips has been hard at work making improvements to the Cancer Risk Assessment Tool and Pre-Visit Patient Questionnaire, tools that together are revolutionizing medical genetics by enabling care to begin before a patient’s first visit. Read more
Krista Pace
10 Years of PhenoTips
10 years ago, PhenoTips was incorporated to support our one-of-a-kind software, transforming the research project “PhenoTips” into a powerful tool for clinical care. Today, on the day of our anniversary, we’re looking back over 10 milestones that shaped us into the company and complete Genomic Health Record we are today. Read more
Michael Berger
2023: A Year In Review
2023 has been an exciting year for PhenoTips. We’ve upgraded our Genomic Health Record, expanded into new specialties and cities, helped pilot milestone regional transformation projects, hosted life-changing events, and much more. In this blog post, we reflect on the past year and offer a sneak peek of what’s to come in 2024. Read more
Michael Berger
The Challenges of Championing Digital Tool Adoption in Genetic Counseling
As the heart of their departments, genetic counselors are innovators pushing for digitization at their institutions and navigating significant challenges on the road to digital adoption and implementation. PhenoTips’ Genetics Workflow Consultant Erica Peacock draws on her training as a genetic counselor, as well as her work assisting genetic counselors seeking digital tools for their department, to address these challenges and offer guidance. Read more
Michael Berger
Create pedigrees automatically and capture complete family medical history with PhenoTips new Cardiac Pre-Visit Patient Questionnaire
Understanding your patient's complete clinical picture and family medical history before a first appointment is imperative in delivering the best patient-centered care. The PhenoTips Cardiac Pre-Visit Patient Questionnaire is designed to gather crucial family medical history of heart disease and automatically create a pedigree before your patient's first visit, with a focus on medical and family history of cardiomyopathies and channelopathies, as well as other rare diseases with a cardiac phenotype. Read more
Krista Pace
The Adoption and Impact of Digital Tools in Genetic Counseling
With telemedicine on the rise and electronic health records (EHRs) becoming standard in medical practice, genetic counselors are relying more and more on technology to manage growing demands while preventing burn out. Seasoned genetic counselors and digital champions Andrew McCarty, Scott Weissman, and Dr. Amy Taylor discuss the adoption and impact of digital tools in genetic counseling. Read more
Whitney Hosein
The Future of Hereditary Cancer Genetic Counseling
As sequencing technologies advance, patents expire and legislature addresses health provider inequities, leaders in hereditary cancer genetic counseling, Jill Stopfer, Jessica Coredor and Emily Nazar, discuss the significance of oncological genetic screening and identify potential challenges. Read more
Whitney Hosein
Genetic Software for Today's Families: PhenoTips' Gender Inclusive Pedigree Maker
Pedigree software has the unique challenge of balancing the technical genetic information required for risk assessment with the care needs of genetic counselors, which too often results in the exclusion of affirming transgender and non-binary representation in pedigree charts. In the absence of standards for trans pedigree representation, PhenoTips has the ability to accurately and respectfully represent LGBT individuals and relationships within pedigrees, with improvements to this functionality on the horizon. Read more
Michael Berger
The Future of Genetic Counseling
Based on a conversation between Amy Sturm, genomic medicine professor at Geisinger and Past President of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, and Erynn Gordon, the founder and President of Ripple Genetics Consulting and Past President of the American Board of Genetic Counseling. Read more
Vasudha Gopal
First Look: Pedigrees that Draw Themselves, Patient-Entered Data, and More!
In an interview with Senior Product Manager, Akshat Khanna, we reveal PhenoTips’ brand new Pre-Visit Patient Questionnaires that save genetic professionals 50% of time per patient interaction by auto-drawing pedigrees from patient-entered data. Read more
Michael Berger
Connecting in a Pandemic: PhenoTips Speaker Series
Without conferences to connect the genetics community PhenoTips created the PhenoTips Speaker Series, a series of free webinar skillshares on relevant topics, featuring discussions with thought leaders and experts in genetic medicine. Read more
Michael Berger
Best Practices for Virtual Genetic Counseling
If you’ve suddenly found yourself offering genetic counselling online, you’re not alone. The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has flipped how we deliver medicine in a matter of months. While you can appreciate that this protects you and your patients’ safety, feeling overwhelmed and uncertain about your ability to deliver virtual care is completely understandable. Read more
Michael Berger
Too Late: the Digital Future is Here
For years a prophesied “digital future” has been looming over medical genetics. Even with the threat of being left behind, risk averse hospitals have been hesitant to make a change. But in unprecedented times, change is upon us whether we like it or not. Read more
Michael Berger