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1Oct, 2018

Asthma Action Plan Blog

By: ZibdyHealth | Tags: AAFA, AAP, AARC, Allergy & Asthma Network, assisted care, Asthma, asthma action plan, caregiver, CDC, Continuation of Care document, COPD, EHR, Electronic Medical Records, FHIR, genetic, genomics, Health Information Exchange, HIE, interoperability, Lungs, medication reminder, MTM, Peak Flow, Pharmacogenomics, school, vitals

Do you have a “dynamic” Asthma Action Plan? The Asthma Action Plan is a patient’s personal guide to help control their asthma, and avoid getting into “trouble”. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and others all recommend that persons diagnosed with asthma should have an asthma action plan. These plans are customized to the individual to help them prevent and control asthma attacks. As most individuals with asthma know, attacks can bey scary, demoralizing, and can impact your life in many ways. […]
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1Oct, 2018

Pharmacogenomics and the future of medicine

By: ZibdyHealth | Tags: DNA, Drug, family, gene, genetic, genomic, healthcare, inheritance, managedcare, medicine, nih, personalized medicine, PGx, pharmacogenomic, Pharmacogenomics, precisionmedicine, rare disease, sequence

You have probably heard that certain medications have worked well for one person but not for another and similarly, sometimes these medications have unwanted side effects for some but not others. There are many factors responsible for these differences, such as age, gender, and our genes. The study of this drug-gene relationship is known as “Pharmacogenomics” or “Pharmacogenetics”, and involves study of the impact of genetic differences on the way our bodies process medications. Pharmacogenomics is a core element of personalized medicine. There are well over 20,000 genes in our […]
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