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About Cosmos

Cosmos can improve the health and lives of people everywhere. Many can imagine the research possibilities with Cosmos, but Cosmos also enables clinicians to contextualize insights to patients like the one in front of them and facilitates an extended network of peers to collaborate with for rare diseases or medical mysteries.

Why Cosmos?

Longitudinal Records

Cosmos integrates both inpatient and outpatient charts into a single, comprehensive record — including as patients move between health systems. In addition to diagnoses and medications, it includes patient-generated data and specialty-specific data. For example, a cancer patient's record contains detailed oncology visits, cancer staging, advanced lab results, and hospitalizations as well as standard outpatient visits.
Some numbers to put it in perspective:
310 Million
Patients
22.6 Billion
Encounters
10.8 Billion
Face-to-Face Visits
52.5K
Clinics
2,358
Hospitals

Cosmos Is Representative

Cosmos goes well beyond diagnoses and medications found on claims transactions and includes patient-generated health data, birth records, vitals, and social drivers like transportation and financial security assessments.
Because the organizations that participate in Cosmos care for a diverse population of patients, Cosmos provides a representative sample of patients who seek healthcare. Below, see how the proportions of patients represented in Cosmos compare to the United States Census.
Because the organizations that participate in Cosmos care for a diverse population of patients, Cosmos provides a representative sample of patients who seek healthcare.

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Race

Ethnicity

Coverage

Social Vulnerability Index

Cosmos Is Fast

Cosmos is designed to answer clinical questions quickly. Once approved for Cosmos access, clinicians and other scholarly explorers at organizations using Cosmos can get answers on demand without needing to put a request in for data.

Curiosity

Curiosity is a new form of healthcare intelligence that helps clinicians, health systems, and patients make more informed decisions. By predicting what may happen next in a patient’s journey, Curiosity can generate a wide range of forward-looking insights, including disease risk, length of stay, and clues that may help uncover underlying diagnoses.

Made possible by the trust and collaboration of a community of health systems and clinicians, Curiosity is trained on over 100 billion patient medical events and simulates likely future outcomes across many aspects of care. The methods and early evaluation results are described in a paper on arXiv.

Read the methods paper on arXiv

Access to Cosmos

As Cosmos is made possible by a community of health systems using Epic software agreeing to collaborate, direct access to Cosmos is available for those affiliated with and approved by a Cosmos participating organization. Access to Cosmos and Cosmos data cannot be purchased.
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448K
Beds
623K
Physicians
310 Million
Patients
22.6 Billion
Encounters
10.8 Billion
Face-to-Face Visits
52.5K
Clinics
2,358
Hospitals
448K
Beds
623K
Physicians

Age

Age

Race

Race

Ethnicity

Ethnicity

Coverage

Coverage

Social Vulnerability Index

Social Vulnerability Index

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