Becker's Healthcare September 18, 2024
After the COVID-19 pandemic, Epic Systems began ramping up efforts in medical research, The Cap Times reported Sept. 18.
Before the pandemic, Epic developed its Cosmos database. Caleb Cox, a software developer and data scientist at Epic, told The Cap Times in a sponsored virtual session that the database was designed to support large-scale research initiatives.
For example, Cosmos invited health systems to contribute anonymized patient data, allowing physicians to access and analyze information from other organizations. This approach provided insights into broader trends that would have been difficult to detect within individual systems.
“Cosmos really is fulfilling that promise of the (electronic health record), the idea that by putting things into a computer rather than keeping them on...
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