The Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute is commercializing its natural-language processing technology, and has tapped healthcare analytics heavyweight Health Catalyst to do so. The technology, called NLP Data Extraction Providing Targeted Healthcare (nDepth), marries analytics, artificial intelligence and linguistics to bring meaning to unstructured data.
Health Catalyst, of Salt Lake City, announced the commercialization agreement Tuesday at HIMSS17 in Orlando, Florida.
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Regenstrief developed nDepth to support the Indiana Health Information Exchange, the oldest currently operating HIE in the country. The network supports more than 230 million text records on 17 million patients, according to Health Catalyst.
Health Catalyst is building nDepth into its core analytics platform, which supports a customer base with a total of about 85 million people, the company said.
According to Regenstrief President and CEO Dr. Peter Embi, the nDepth technology helps unlock clinical insights from the 80 percent of clinical data currently stored in unstructured notes.
“By combining Health Catalyst’s analytics market leadership and data platform with our text analytics and expertise, we will help millions of patients benefit from the untapped potential hidden within unstructured data,” Embi said in a prepared statement.
Development partner Memorial Hospital at Gulfport in Gulfport, Mississippi, is the launch site for the integration of nDepth into the Health Catalyst network. Memorial has been a Health Catalyst user since June 2014, when the 445-bed hospital also turned on a replacement Cerner electronic health record.
“This is a new level of analytics,” said Gene Thomas, CIO of Memorial Hospital at Gulfport. “It’s going to be able to give us more insights about unstructured data.”
Memorial started a pilot last summer. “They approached me and my immediate answer was yes,” Thomas recalled. The hospital has a good working relationship with Health Catalyst, of course. “More importantly, there’s a huge need,” Thomas said.
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