2261: Epic - The Importance of Data For The Greater Good

Dave Little, MD, Clinical Informaticist and Phil Lindemann, VP of Business Intelligence and Analytics at Epic, join me on The Tech Talk Daily podcast. Epic manages electronic health records for more than 250 million patients and is now expanding clinical trials by kicking off a Life Sciences program to help speed up the development of new therapies. Providers across the world use Epic to conduct more than 100,000 active research studies with 4.7 million patients.

Today many clinical trials struggle to find the right participants - the first stage of Life Sciences will be accurately matching organizations with clinical trials suited to their patients. This will allow researchers to be able to recruit more effectively and help ensure that clinical trials benefit more representative populations.

Dave and Phil discuss the importance of companies providing data for the greater good of Americans' lives. I also learn more about how large data sets like Epics' Cosmos can provide health officials with the data needed to enact changes. This allows doctors to learn from thousands of other hospitals and support researched-health needs like adverse trends in healthcare and outbreak detection.