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 […]
The clinical genetics community recognise the increasing demand for direct to consumer (DTC) genetic testing. Companies such as 23andMe sell genetic tests, analyse samples that are sent back and provide the results with some analysis. The results of DTCs frequently look for specific variances in genes, as opposed to testing the entire genome. The analysis […]
TrakGene were very proud to provide four education scholarships to the 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia (HGSA) in Wellington, NZ. Our recipients were PhD candidates and students, along with a Genetics Fellow out of Sydney and Melbourne. The HGSA meeting was attended by over 520 delegates and was run […]
If you’ve been following our recent posts then you will know about our research to find out more about the challenges and requirements of those working in the genetics services for clinical genetics software solutions. We have already covered the level of user satisfaction in genetics software and the IT challenges faced by genetics services. […]
Our recent market research explored the IT challenges and issues being faced by users of clinical genetics software. If you haven’t already read our article on overall satisfaction with genetics IT systems, then we recommend checking that out first. In this article we reveal some of the main causes of dissatisfaction with genetics software and […]
Overall satisfaction with genetics IT systems found to be only 60 percent in results of 2019 survey.
In a survey we carried out earlier in the year, we asked users of clinical genetics information systems how satisfied they were with their IT system. In this article we will share some of the results of this survey with you. We would also like to thank all those that took part in the survey […]
To help support our users, we are expanding the range of video guides available. Video guides can be accessed from our Help and Support section. These short videos demonstrate various features of TrakGene that will help you use the software. The video guides include how to draw pedigrees and managing electronic patient records. As new […]
Influence IT Developments in Clinical Genetics You have an exciting opportunity to influence the development of IT solutions in Clinical Genetics. We are conducting a survey to discover what the most significant IT challenges are for people working in Clinical Genetics and to identify priorities when addressing those challenges. Your response to this survey is […]
We have just released TrakGene version 2.7.19, which contains a number of enhancements. We wanted to let you know about the most significant changes in this version. The Add Family feature on the Find Person screen has been updated so that each user can set their own default folder group and folder to be pre-populated […]
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