OMNY Health unlocks 4 billion clinical notes to transform healthcare research

OMNY Health’s massive integration of unstructured clinical notes represents a breakthrough in healthcare data utilization, potentially transforming medical research and patient care. By converting 4 billion previously unusable clinical notes into accessible insights, OMNY has addressed a critical gap in healthcare analytics where approximately 80% of medical data exists in unstructured formats that traditional electronic health records cannot process. This development opens new possibilities for understanding disease progression, improving clinical trials, and advancing health equity research.

The big picture: OMNY Health has incorporated 4 billion unstructured clinical notes into its network, transforming previously unusable data into accessible insights for healthcare organizations and research partners.

• The platform connects these newly structured notes with its broader clinical data network, accessible to health systems, specialty networks, pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, and AI developers.
• This initiative addresses a critical gap in healthcare data utilization, as approximately 80% of medical data exists in unstructured formats that traditional electronic health records systems cannot effectively process.

Why this matters: Converting unstructured clinical notes into usable formats gives healthcare organizations unprecedented visibility into the complete patient care journey.

• Dr. Mitesh Rao, OMNY Health’s founder and CEO, described finding insights in unstructured data as “looking for a needle in a haystack” before this development.
• The newly structured data contains valuable information on disease progression, treatment insights, patient responses, adherence patterns, adverse events, and social determinants of health.

The transformation process: Converting unstructured clinical notes into usable data requires sophisticated processing beyond what most healthcare organizations can accomplish independently.

• Rao compared the process to transforming unprocessed wheat into flour for baking cookies – requiring extensive cleaning, structuring, de-identifying, and natural language processing to extract meaningful insights.
• OMNY collaborated with provider organizations, including academic medical centers, to gather and process these clinical notes into an accessible format.

Potential applications: The newly accessible clinical notes data could revolutionize multiple aspects of healthcare delivery and innovation.

• The structured data can inform clinical innovation, accelerate recruitment for trials, train large language models, guide care decisions, identify care gaps, and advance health equity research.
• Dr. Mark Townsend from Bon Secours Mercy Health described unstructured data as “a treasure trove of untapped insights” that can “improve patient outcomes, drive operational efficiencies and foster innovation in health care.”

By the numbers: OMNY Health’s data ecosystem now represents a comprehensive view of American healthcare.

• The network includes clinical notes from more than 500,000 providers across over 200 specialties.
• The ecosystem encompasses 43 provider organizations with coverage spanning all 50 states, representing more than 85 million patients.