EPOCH®: A web-based platform for integrating outcomes research and healthcare delivery

EPOCH^® is a unified web portal and services framework for healthcare IT applications based on Microsoft^®´s .NET^® platform that has been specifically designed to help bridge outcomes research and healthcare delivery. A signature feature of the EPOCH^® platform is a visually driven interface that allows outcomes researches to create sophisticated data collection and decision support tools with little or no programming effort. Existing modules include: (1) eCliPSE¿, an HL7-compliant enterprise data services platform for integrating EPOCH^® with third-party clinical information systems; (2) eRAPTOR¿, a longitudinal data capture tool for clinical data collection; and (3) ePRISM^®, a real-time risk modeling and decision support system. To date, EPOCH^® and its related technologies have been used in several thousand patient encounters across multiple institutions.