Epic Gathers Medical Record Data from 20M Patients for Medical Research

Epic is planning on developing a clinical data warehouse incorporating records from 20 million patients. The project is calledCosmos and, needless to say, will be a remarkable resource for research (see:Epic to gather records of 20 million patients for medical research). Below is an excerpt from an article discussing it:Epic is unveiling a massive data compilation effort intended to gather de-identified patient information from participating systems that eventually could be used by clinicians to improve care decisions. Called Cosmos, the initiative aims to aggregate patients ’ medical information from its customers to offer a wider base of information from which to enable real-world evidence based practice of medicine, even for conditions that are now currently rare and on which it’s difficult to have a large enough sample size on which to make medical decisions....So far, nine healthcare systems are contributing patient data to Cosmos....The company is in discussions with more than 30 other customers that could contribute data, which would result in the data of about 25 million patients being included. Health systems that want to participate sign a contract and then must work to ensure that the medical information they contribute to Cosmos is of high quality and standardized to ensure that it can be used to support research.....The data won ’t be used for research until it has the records of 20 million patients....The company plans to empower uses to sift through...
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