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Have any states drafted legislation or changed your regulations for WGS reporting to your state or local health departments? Willing to share the language? Did it pass?
Comments & Events
Hanna Oltean
WA DOH has met a few times with our State Board of Health to discuss rule changes to enable better capture of sequencing data, but we keep getting hung up on complexities like reporting from research labs vs clinical labs, so we haven't gotten anything through. That said, attached is our latest draft of language to be included in the rule (which I'm sure will go through a lot more revision, and which may or may not pass...). Our discussions so far indicate that this would only apply to clinical labs.
That said, attached is our latest draft of language to be included in the rule (which I'm sure will go through a lot more revision, and which may or may not pass...). Our discussions so far indicate that this would only apply to clinical labs.