From Electronic Health Records to Space Medicine: Building the Future of Space Healthcare

From Electronic Health Records to Space Medicine: Building the Future of Space Healthcare

From Genetics (Audio) by UCTV

May 30, 2026 · 12 min

About this episode

Peter DeVault discusses the integration of electronic health records in space medicine and the future of astronaut healthcare.

Space healthcare depends on connected health data that can follow people wherever care happens. Peter DeVault, Epic, explains how electronic health record tools built for hospitals, labs, and patients can also support healthcare in space. DeVault describes patient-facing tools like MyChart, interoperability across health systems, structured genomics and pharmacogenomics in the patient record, and Cosmos, Epic’s patient data aggregation platform with about 300 million longitudinal records. He also examines AI capabilities that can generate possible future health scenarios and expand to telemetry and molecular data collected before, during, and after a mission. This work helps explain how records, data sharing, and predictive tools could support astronaut health and resilience and why those capabilities may be necessary for the future of space medicine. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 41481]

People in this episode

Guest: Peter DeVault

Topics covered

  • space healthcare
  • electronic health records
  • interoperability
  • genomics
  • AI in medicine
  • astronaut health

Keywords

  • space medicine
  • health data
  • patient records
  • telemetry
  • molecular data
  • predictive tools
  • healthcare technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Epic, Stem Cell Channel

Products: MyChart, Cosmos

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