Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

E-health apps fill critical care gaps given limited genomics expertise and capacity to convey the large volume of genomics results and their myriad of implications. Decisional support tools, such as decision aids, improve the quality of patients' decisions and may, ultimately, save clinician counseling time and health care costs. This session will introduce the principles of user-centered design and apply this framework to the design and evaluation of the Genomics ADvISER.com, an e-health decision aid empowering patient selection of incidental findings across all categories of incidental findings (actionable, non-actionable, carrier, pharmacogenomics and Mendelian disease risks). This presentation will highlight the mixed-methods process consisting of 1) prototype development, 2) feasibility testing, 3) cognitive interviews, 4) design and programming, 5) usability testing and 6) a randomized controlled trial. By drawing on the principles of user centered design and implementation science as applied to the development and evaluation of the Genomics ADvISER.com, the audience will gain an in depth understanding of the frameworks, methods, metrics and evaluation criteria used by the genomics e-health app community to assess scalability and readiness for health system deployment.