{"id":50,"date":"2009-11-08T04:48:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T04:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2009-11-08T04:48:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T04:48:19","slug":"kaiser-a-protoype-for-collins-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/genetic-medicine\/kaiser-a-protoype-for-collins-aim.php","title":{"rendered":"Kaiser a protoype for Collins’ Aim"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don't know if anyone had heard about the Kaiser Permanente Biobank?<\/span> <\/span><\/p>

Since Kaiser has millions of lives cared for in a statewide healthcare system, they could easily pound out 500k bio samples overnight.<\/p>

For the past year or so I have been thinking that the big problem with environmental studies is the need for huge sample size per environment size. <\/span><\/p>

These guys popped up on my radar back in January.
When the AMA News covered there new shiny \"biobank\"......<\/a> <\/span><\/p>

\" Kaiser Permanente is constructing what is expected to be one of the world's largest and most diverse repositories of genetic, environmental and health data.<\/span> <\/p>

The Kaiser repository already has 40,000 DNA samples from members of its giant California-based health plan and expects to have 500,000 samples by 2012.\"<\/p>

Well, it turns out that they already have 100k now. Why wouldn't they? They actively care for over 3 million of California's citizens......And with the Government going under, I am certain Kaiser will take care of EVEN MORE.......<\/p>

In my email inbox an update on this machine.......<\/p>

The Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment, and Health (RPGEH) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have been awarded $24.8 million over two years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a new resource for studying disease, health, and aging.<\/p>

With this support, Kaiser Permanente’s RPGEH and UCSF will conduct a genome-wide analysis of DNA samples from 100,000 Kaiser Permanente members from Northern California who have volunteered to join the RPGEH. This new and detailed genetic information – which has never before been generated on such a large and diverse population – will be linked to decades of historical clinical and other health-related information on these participants, taken from health surveys and the Kaiser Permanente electronic health record, the world's largest civilian electronic health record.<\/p>

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This will likely serve as a prototype for which Francis will follow........Why?<\/p>

Think about it. Lots of national\/EPA data on environment, now linked to clinical data and genotypes.<\/p>

Boy, the government could get a whole crapload of that data if they would just open up the VA EMR for free to all physicians........<\/p>

Any company looking to get into the EMR business these days is going to fail unless they can give it away for free....<\/p>

That being said, Kaiser has a huge head start on anyone else looking to do this. Why? 3.3 million medical records paired with DNA......<\/p>

But, this still could be a boondoggle unless they have much more specific environmental data. \"Linking environment to disease ain't like dusting crops boy........\"
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If you want to learn why, you can start here<\/a><\/p>

In fact, the more I learn about the field, the more madness I discover.....This will be a huge boondoggle unless done very, very carefully. The old adage of collect the right data may actually be something of a moving target as the study continues. Which may make this type of exercise particularly suited for the internet age.....<\/p>

The Sherpa Says: Yeah, Biobanks are all the rage......but how well does one know how to keep thine own? Ask Coriell, they have been doing it a very, very long time....<\/span><\/p>

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