GeneLens

What GeneLens does

A genetic report arrives as a PDF and is filed. This puts it beside the prescription. The report is recorded as the laboratory issued it — its reference, its panel, and each finding in the laboratory’s own words — and the gene-drug flags are computed where three things meet: a finding that states a phenotype, a rule in the pharmacogenomic table this hospital has loaded, and a medicine the patient is currently prescribed. Every flag carries the rule, the table and the source that table came from, so a clinician can see whose guideline this is before acting on it. NOTHING IS PRE-LOADED. This product ships no gene-drug content at all: a table written from memory would be plausible, incomplete in ways nobody could see, and read as a reason to change somebody’s medicine, so what ships is the importer and an honest empty state, and the hospital loads the licensed table it uses.

How you actually use it

1. 1Load the pharmacogenomic tableUnder Reference table, name it, its version and where it came from, and paste the file with gene, phenotype, drug, effect and recommendation; evidence level is optional. Nothing ships pre-loaded. A load becomes the table in use and marks the previous one superseded, keeping its rules; reloading the same name and version replaces that table’s rules outright.
2. 2File a reportPatient, laboratory, report reference, the date it was reported, the panel and the laboratory’s summary in its own words.
3. 3Record each findingGene, variant, phenotype as the report states it, significance and what the laboratory wrote. A variant of uncertain significance carries no action — the service refuses one that does.
4. 4Read it against what the patient is takingA flag appears where a finding’s phenotype meets a rule in the current table and a medicine the patient is currently prescribed, naming the table, its version and its source. With no table loaded the panel says nothing is being checked, rather than showing a clean page.

What it does not do

It does not sequence, interpret or reinterpret anything — the significance on every finding is the laboratory’s, typed off the laboratory’s report. A variant of uncertain significance cannot carry an action: the database refuses the row, so “unknown” cannot quietly acquire an instruction. It does not change a prescription; a flag is a row beside one. And with no pharmacogenomic table loaded it produces no flags and says that nothing is being checked, rather than showing a clean page that reads like an all-clear.

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