‘Best Care’ Will Use Real-World Data from Cosmos for Clinical Decision Support

October 31, 2022
Epic is getting ready to pilot called Best Care, which takes advantage of Cosmos to provide decision support at the point of care by using real-world data about similar patients.

Epic is getting ready to pilot called Best Care, which takes advantage of Cosmos to provide decision support at the point of care by using real-world data about similar patients.

“We’re starting a pilot within the year where that information will initially be available within the Cosmos portal, but the goal is that the information will be directly embedded into the workflow,” said Johnston Thayer, RN, a clinical informaticist at Epic. “We’re going to start out with the hypertension use case as an initial pilot concept, but then we plan to work with the Epic organizations and some of the specialists in a variety of areas to identify use cases that we will continue to move into after that.”

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