15 May Epic rolling out personalized care data tool this summer
Epic is rolling out a new personalized care data tool, which aims to give doctors crucial patient insights.
That’s according to Phil Lindemann, vice president of data and analytics informatics for the Verona-based electronic health records company. He spoke yesterday during In Business magazine’s Health Care Summit in Madison.
He said patients with hypertension, for example, currently face an overwhelming number of choices for medications but aren’t able to ask their doctor what will work best for them. That’s because providing an informed answer to that question requires too much data for any one clinician to analyze, he said.
That’s where Epic’s Cosmos database comes in, drawing from numerous health systems that use the company’s software platform, he said. Most of the studies done by Epic’s research division already use the database, which the company describes as “a universe of electronic health record data.” Read more…