AUB becomes the 1st institution outside the US to join the Cosmos by Epic network

AUB becomes the 1st institution outside the US to join the Cosmos by Epic network

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The American University of Beirut (AUB) has become the first institution outside of the United States to be part of the Cosmos network, the largest integrated database of clinical information in the US. 

Built on a data platform that answers queries in minutes, Cosmos has an extensive representative sample of patients across all population metrics. Its vital database is collected from laboratories, medications, and patient-generated health data. The Cosmos data set is unlike any other used in health research today. It combines billions of clinical data points in a way that forms a high quality, representative, and integrated data set that can be used to change the health and lives of people everywhere.

This makes Cosmos the ultimate data source for clinicians delivering individualized patient care and for academic researchers in the field of healthcare.

Cosmos has data from over 176 million patient records from over 6.3 billion encounters. It is built on a data platform optimized to answer clinical questions over time in minutes. Clinicians and other scholarly explorers can ask questions on-demand without needing to put a request in for data. 

Cosmos will provide AUB researchers, faculty, and students with access to the most up-to-date clinical data and provide physicians with