Epic Multi-year, multi-level EHR collaboration, ongoing

Epic is the EHR platform that anchors most of Dr. Osterman's clinical informatics work, and the collaboration with the company takes several distinct shapes: governance, build, training, and research.

Governance. Dr. Osterman serves on Epic's Adult Oncology Steering Committee, the body that influences the direction of Epic's oncology-specific features. He also founded the Epic Beacon Community Operations Group (BCOG), a multi-institution governance body for the dominant U.S. oncology EHR module - the group of academic cancer centers that coordinate on shared challenges and shared builds across the Beacon platform.

Build and integration. Three implementation pieces have shipped at Vanderbilt under Dr. Osterman's leadership: the Epic Genomics Module as the structured-variant home inside the EHR; Epic AURA as the bridge that pulls reference-laboratory genomic reports in over standardized interfaces; and the AI-extracted oncology staging workflow being built into Epic Hyperspace (Dr. Osterman is PI). The implementation work is documented in Li et al., JCO CCI, 2024 (mCODE Genomics Pilot) and the Vento & Osterman NCCN abstract (2023) on the upstream workflow.

Speaking and community. Featured speaker at Epic's annual User Group Meeting (UGM) and Expert Group Meeting (XGM) on community governance, structured genomic data backloading, in-basket workflow, and other topics where the BCOG cross-institution conversations have generated reusable patterns. The 2022 UGM talk Precision Medicine: Using Structured Genomic Data in Clinical Decision Support is the canonical public version of the Vanderbilt build story.