In the vicinity of Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, Colorado, clinicians will soon have a new tool for diagnosing and identifying complicated neurodevelopmental diseases such as epilepsy, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and autism: genetic testing. Later this year, the health system’s primary care doctors and pediatricians will be able to arrange genetic testing for children with neurodevelopmental and other diseases straight via the electronic health record system. The goal is to improve the efficiency of genetic diagnosis and DNA variation detection. “Pediatricians are busy. They’re seeing a lot of patients. “They don’t have much time,” said Scott Demarest, MD, a neurologist and medical director at the Precision Medicine Institute in Aurora, Colorado. “You have to think about how to make it easy for them.
DNA Profits: Pediatricians Take advantage of Fast Genetic Analysis for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
