Prenatal genetic screening provides expectant parents with important information about their unborn child’s health. Recently, new guidelines have been released for noninvasive prenatal genetic screening (NIPS), which can provide more accurate information than ever before. In this article, we’ll take a look at what noninvasive prenatal genetic screening is, how it works, and what the […]
In this article we take a closer look at the technology and the practicalities of implementing telemedicine to create a telegenetics service. The Covid-19 pandemic has lead to a surge in demand for telemedicine across the healthcare sector as greater number of people are either unable or unwilling to attend physical clinic appointments. Allysa Ware, the Program […]
The adoption of telemedicine has been slow around the globe, including in genetics. Telemedicine was in early developing in 1992 and some 30 years later it was still regarded as hard to sell to the health sector. Health sector regulations in a number of countries were not compatible with the adoption of telemedicine, including a […]
A survey conducted by the National Coordinating Center for the Regional Genetics Networks (NCC) this month has shown that 15.8% of geneticists have reportedly used telegenetics. The growth of telegenetics and telemedicine has been speculated for some time. There are also a number of papers that have been published over the past few years that […]
We have been following the trials and developments of the application of telemedicine in Genetics, which has produced some positive results. Telemedicine uses technology to bridge the geographical gaps between the clinician and the patient. Rather that a clinician having to travel to different areas to run clinics, or patients travelling to see the clinician, […]
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