Brilliant colleagues Jennifer Goldman MD and Claudia Masihy from Memorial Healthcare System in Florida, and James Gray MD, Kacey Appel PhD and Stephanie Hotze from Cincinnati Childrens Hospital spoke about taking Cosmos to the next level with the Datathon in their organization.
Dr. Goldman explained the nuances of building a sustaining community. Crucial point: Get your IRB chair to be comfortable that the entirety of COSMOS is deidentified. Then ALL projects via Cosmos are already IRB Exempt! Am I dreaming?
Then, bring your Epic experts, your statisticians, your research experts, get the competitive juices flowing between your clinical departments, and the race is on to write the best paper IN ONE DAY. This is the way to hold an Epic Cosmos Datathon.
More community building.
The results speak for themselves. One-day datathon. So much output.
Cincinnati Children’s built similar cultural bridges. 
Then some dude came up with lyrics. “Epic Cosmos Datathon” has the same number of syllables as “Carry On My Wayward Son.” Did a recording of the song survive the session? Time will tell.
Thank you to brilliant colleagues, 300 million patients in the Epic Cosmos database is available to researchers and quality specialists using Epic. A rising tide raises all boats.
Bonus: lyrics by CT Lin and Jennifer Goldman. “Epic Cosmos Datathon”
Epic Cosmos Datathon
via the original: Carry On My Wayward Son. Kansas
Epic Cosmos Datathon
Write your paper when the day is done
Ask a question, Slicer does the rest
Don’t you cry no more
I was mired in the noise and confusion
Needed data from beyond my institution
I was asking all my questions, but I got no reply
300 million patients, now I see a pattern
Got my question answered, this is what matters
IRB exempt? am I dreaming?
Now I hear the voices say
Epic Cosmos Datathon
Write your paper when the day is done
Ask a question, Slicer does the rest
Don’t you cry no more!
