About this episode

Peter DeVault discusses the integration of electronic health records and AI in supporting astronaut health and resilience in space medicine.

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
• AI in medicine
• data interoperability
• astronaut health
• predictive health tools

Keywords

• space medicine
• health data
• telemetry
• genomics
• pharmacogenomics
• healthcare technology
• longitudinal records

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Epic, Stem Cell Channel

Products: MyChart, Cosmos

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