Key result
Incorporating climate factors into EHRs is critical to personalize care and mitigate health risks.
Why the study?
Precision healthcare requires incorporation of climate-related factors relevant to the patient, but integration of environment and community vital signs into electronic health records and care plans is currently lacking.
Integrating climate-related factors into precision healthcare and electronic health records is essential for personalized risk assessment and care planning.
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“Precision care should extend beyond biology by integrating climate-related exposures and the broader exposome into electronic health records, clinical assessments, education, and research. This includes capturing environmental and community 'vital signs,' preparing clinicians to address climate-related risks, and developing guidelines that translate these data into personalized care.”
Integrate climate exposures into EHRs and care plans now; extends precision healthcare by mandating provider education and community data integration.
Precision healthcare requires incorporation of climate-related factors relevant to the patient. There is a critical need for healthcare systems to incorporate environment and community vital signs into electronic health records to facilitate incorporation of climate-related exposures into personalized patient care plans. Educators need to incorporate precision healthcare that includes climate-related assessments for patients into the education of current and future health care providers. Research focusing on precision healthcare that integrates data sources from omics and across the exposome, including climate-related data is needed. Practice guidelines need to be developed that incorporate the exposome, including climate-related health threats, into precision health at the healthcare system level and into personalized recommendations for patients.
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Conley et al. (2026) conducted a review in Climate-related health threats. Climate-informed precision health was evaluated. Incorporating climate-related factors such as heat exposure and air quality into precision healthcare and electronic health records is critical for personalizing patient care and mitigating health risks.
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