In an article published in Genetics in Medicine, Heidi L. Rehm, Director of the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine at Partners Healthcare Personalized Medicine and Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, calls for the sharing of variant interpretations to advance medicine and improve patient care. Reviewing the progress made over the past five years by ClinVar and other major studies, she highlights the strides than can be made when multiple laboratories collaborate on evaluating the significance of individual genes, assigning categories consistently, and allowing peer review. To that end, Rehm lays out five recommendations for regulators, agencies, providers, laboratories and others. Rehm is a frequent Consortium collaborator – she wrote a major article on improving genomic laboratory practices with Consortium Chair Susan M. Wolf and others. She also spoke about her work to define standards for the interpretation of genomic variants at a lecture hosted by the Consortium in 2015; video of that talk is available here.