Researchers looking to aggregate and harmonize genomic data—a critical undertaking that would empower translational research in pediatric oncology—will face technical complexities that exceed the challenges of enabling interoperability between electronic health record systems, said Jinghui Zhang, the St. Jude Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics and chair of the Department of Computational Biology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Hispanic and Latino people comprise nearly 20% of the U.S. population, but less than 6% of physicians nationwide identify as Hispanic.
