Open AccessThe U.S. National Library of Medicine’s impact on precision and genomic medicine
Author(s) -
M.O. Huan,
Joshua C. Denny
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
information services and use
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1875-8789
pISSN - 0167-5265
DOI - 10.3233/isu-210144
Subject(s) - precision medicine , genomic medicine , national library , data science , scale (ratio) , data curation , health care , quality (philosophy) , computer science , world wide web , library science , medicine , computational biology , political science , biology , geography , pathology , philosophy , cartography , epistemology , law
Precision medicine offers the potential to improve health through deeper understandings of the lifestyle, biological, and environmental influences on health. Under Dr. Donald A. B. Lindberg’s leadership, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) has developed the central reference resources for biomedical research and molecular laboratory medicine that enable precision medicine. The hosting and curation of biomedical knowledge repositories and data by NLM enable quality information reachable for providers and researchers throughout the world. NLM has been supporting the innovation of electronic health record systems to implement computability and secondary use for biomedical research, producing the scale of linked health and molecular datasets necessary for precision medicine discovery.