PGx FAQs

Pharmacogenetics FAQs

Immediate Questions?

Secure Chat Groups: "Pharmacogenomics Service" in UCHealth's EHR

Patients who have been genotyped by the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) biobank laboratory and consented to receive results may receive results if they are available. For pharmacogenetic results, participants will be notified via UCHealth's MyHealthConnection patient portal. The date that these results file into the EHR is the date that the sample was initially collected, which may be several years before notification that results are now available. If you or your patient is having a hard time finding their results, please scroll back several years in the EHR to identify these results.

No. Patients who have been genotyped through the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) biobank laboratory will have results placed directly into the UCHealth EHR. Patients will be notified of these results through UCHealth's MyHealthConnection patient portal. CCPM has embedded clinical decision support tools into UCHealth’s EHR to notify clinicians of gene-drug interactions at the time of prescribing. CCPM may notify clinicians if a patient is on a high-risk medication and new relevant pharmacogenetic information is available that may impact prescribing.

For further information, please visit the drug-gene specific resources and tip sheets above.

Since 2015, the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) biobank has enrolled participants in a research biobank. Some biobank participants have signed a consent giving permission to return select, clinically actionable pharmacogenetic test results to their EHR.

Suppose a patient has pharmacogenetic results available from their participation in the biobank. In that case, CCPM has embedded clinical decision support (CDS) tools into UCHealth's EHR to notify providers when they prescribe certain medicines impacted by a patient's genetics.