The Cosmos Collaborative: A Vendor-Facilitated Electronic Health Record Data Aggregation Platform.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Learning healthcare systems use routinely collected data to generate new evidence that informs future practice. While implementing an electronic health record (EHR) system can facilitate this goal for individual institutions, meaningfully aggregating data from multiple institutions can be more empowering. Cosmos is a cross-institution, single EHR vendor-facilitated data aggregation tool. This work aims to describe the initiative and illustrate its potential utility through several use cases.

Methods

Cosmos is designed to scale rapidly by leveraging preexisting agreements, clinical health information exchange networks, and data standards. Data are stored centrally as a limited dataset, but the customer facing query tool limits results to prevent patient reidentifica

SUBMITTER: Tarabichi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8775787 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature