Data standardization and NLP

Standardize clinical data for better healthcare insights

IMO Precision Normalize transforms unstructured data into standardized information to improve clinical insights, analytics, and interoperability.

Challenges

Gleaning clinical insights from unstructured text is challenging

Clinical documentation often includes abbreviations, misspellings, and shorthand, making it difficult to extract meaningful insights. Without standardization, this data remains fragmented and hard to analyze.

Patient data
can be highly variable and inconsistent

Patient information is recorded using different coding standards across healthcare systems which leads to discrepancies. These variations create challenges for data interoperability, analytics, and patient care.

HOW WE HELP

IMO Precision Normalize

Built on award-winning NLP that efficiently extracts clinical concepts from free text, IMO Precision Normalize seamlessly maps clinical entities and structured data to standard codes for more accurate, complete, and usable data.

Deep understanding of clinical narratives

  • Extract highly-specific clinical concepts from unstructured text even with misspellings, abbreviations, and short hand
  • Identify and connect clinical concepts and relationships across related entities
  • Detect contextual metadata including time orientation, negation, and body location
  • IMO Health’s NLP experts fine-tune and customize your pipeline to best support your requirements

Automated clinical data codification

  • Map structured and unstructured data to appropriate codes
  • Trained on a dictionary of 5 million clinical terms
  • Standardize diagnosis, procedure, medication, and lab data from all major coding systems
  • Ensure specific and accurate coding to optimize downstream data use

Scaled data standardization

  • Up to 300,000 terms processed per minute
  • Seamless integration with APIs  through an intuitive developer portal
  • Flexible deployment with IMO Health-hosted and self-hosted options
  • Intuitive interface to review, accept, and adjust mapped data as needed
  • Compliant with health system and regulatory requirements

How it works

Extracts clinical concepts from unstructured free text using named entity recognition.

Identifies and understands the presence, absence, or possibility of the clinical concept.

Uncovers connections between clinical concepts throughout the text.

Extracts time-related details associated with the identified clinical concepts.

Identifies sections within clinical narrative to add context and organization to extracted entities.

Comprehensively maps clinical concepts to IMO Health terms and all relevant standard codes.

  • Problem domain
    • ICD-10-CM, ICD-O-3, ICD-9-CM, SNOMED CT®, SNOMED CT® US Edition, MeSH, DSM-5-TR®
  • Procedure domain
    • CPT®, HCPCS, ICD-10-PCS, SNOMED CT®, MeSH, LOINC®
  • Medication domain
    • RxNorm®, NDC, CVX, MVX
  • Lab domain
    • LOINC®, CPT®, HCPCS, ICD-10-PCS, SNOMED CT®, MeSH
SNOMED and SNOMED CT® are registered trademarks of SNOMED International. DSM® is a registered trademark of the American Psychiatric Association, and are used with permission herein. CPT® is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. All rights reserved. LOINC® is a registered trademark of Regenstrief Institute, Inc. RxNorm® is a registered trademark of the National Library of Medicine.

Deploy as SaaS or integrate into your local or cloud environments via API to help extract and standardize clinical data at scale.

Streamline the standardization of inconsistent patient data from disparate sources and systems.

IMO Precision Normalize
Capabilities

Flexible integration and comprehensive coding coverage

Enhance the value and usability of unstructured clinical data with IMO Health’s solution that’s built on award-winning NLP and trained on comprehensive clinical terminology and coding, with flexible deployment and integration options.

Integration

Localvscloud

Local vs. cloud deployment

(AWS, Azure, GCP)

SaaS

Software as a service

Comprehensive coding coverage

Stethoscope

Problem domain

ICD-10-CM (default), ICD-9-CM, SNOMED CT®

Procedure domain

CPT® (default), HCPCS, ICD-10-PCS, SNOMED CT, LOINC

Rx

Medication domain

RxNorm® (default), NDC, CVX

Microscope

Lab domain

LOINC (default), CPT, HCPCS, ICD-10-PCS, SNOMED CT

SNOMED and SNOMED CT® are registered trademarks of SNOMED International. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. All rights reserved. RxNorm® is a registered trademark of the National Library of Medicine.

Learn how Sharp HealthCare is leveraging IMO Precision Normalize to:

  • Reduce the burden of manual data standardization
  • Accelerate the delivery of analytics
  • Support high-quality patient care

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