Life Sciences

Epic brings together clinical care, research, advanced diagnostics, and medical devices to help health systems bring precision medicine to the point of care and advance medical knowledge.

Research

Epic integrates clinical care and research by giving researchers the ability to explore study feasibility, organize studies, recruit participants, collect consents, track patient-reported outcomes, and more. Patients use MyChart to indicate interest in participating in research. Researchers from participating organizations have access to Cosmos, a large, deidentified, representative dataset.

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Clinical Trials

Discovery, Epic’s life sciences platform, builds on the research toolset. It helps clinical trials reach a larger and more representative population, reduces friction at study start up and in sharing trial-specific evidence with sponsors, and speeds up access to cutting edge care for patients who qualify for investigational treatments.

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Specialty Diagnostics

Epic brings precision medicine to the point of care by giving providers the ability to place orders for genetic tests and receive discrete results via the Aura network, all within their workflow rather than just in a PDF. Companies that provide specialty diagnostic testing use Epic to receive orders from providers and send back discrete results via the Aura network.

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Medical Device Manufacturers

Orders for medical devices, such as cardiac monitors, are sent to device manufacturers over the Aura network—no need for point-to-point interfaces. Readings from the devices flow directly into Epic, giving providers a real-time view of patients’ vital signs.

Medical Device Manufacturers

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Surgical Implant Manufacturers

Healthcare providers and surgical implant manufacturers stay in sync about the timing and materials for upcoming surgeries, helping coordinate resources such as implants, trays, clinicians, and support staff. (Future)

Surgical Implant Manufacturers

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When we heard about Aura, Epic’s network to exchange data with our specialty diagnostic lab partners in a way that’s similar to Epic’s interoperability network Care Everywhere, I knew right away that this was a better way to do it. Aura makes it possible to make these connections at scale with highly complex genomic data. We never would have had this many labs live at this point without it. We’ve also joined a great collaborative community. We’re all using the same software, and Epic is helping us mediate the technical connections. That’s big.

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—Dick Taylor, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, BJC HealthCare & Washington University

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