Vikrant Deshmukh

Data science is the discipline of extracting knowledge from data and medical informatics is the science of how to use data, information, and knowledge to improve human health and the delivery of health care services. Data Science Services (DSS) is the University of Utah Health’s centralized research analytics team that provides healthcare data science and medical informatics expertise to the University’s clinical and translational research community.

DSS serves as the research data concierge for the UHealth Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Epic electronic health record (over 3 million UHealth patients), Epic Cosmos (over 300 million patients from across Epic health systems), and other healthcare databases. DSS provides analytic, technical, and consultative support, education, and training to clinicians and researchers on healthcare data, data science, self-service tools, and the effective use of all available analytics resources to answer complex, data-intensive research questions in healthcare. 

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