SyTrue: Driving Innovation in Healthcare through Data Analytics

With technology advancing to new heights, healthcare is going through a number of changes. Be it a shift in the payment models or a more data driven approach to care delivery with Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), the increasing data influx calls for solutions that can access relevant information via open Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and collaborations—driving downstream outcomes. With their base set up in Chico, CA, SyTrue—a healthcare data analytics company—provides solutions that can transform healthcare into a more accountable and data-centric industry. “By using technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning to improve our analytics accuracy rates, we help healthcare organizations in identifying real-time issues that come up while dealing with patients,” says Kyle Silvestro, President and CEO, SyTrue.

Data from clinical warehouses or EMRs does not necessarily come in a single, readable format, and are often accompanied with headers and footers. Cleaning this data manually, which can also have duplications, is laborious and time consuming. “We provide an end-to-end solutions suite that not only collects the data, but processes and democratizes it. This gives physicians access to interoperable content, enabling them to create value and proactively catalyze change,” notes Silvestro. Also accounting for the variation in language, their solutions accurately identify and extract the pertinent information from over 600,000 physicians and more than 6000 hospitals across the U.S.

Built on a platform which is offered as a service to its clients, SyTrue’s Natural Language Processing (NLP) OS provides a foundational layer with the tools required to use it out of the box. Explaining the functionality of the OS, Silvestro says, “We have created an OS that our partners can use to interact with the technology and build applications on top of it, which can then be accessed by a mass audience with little to no special training.”

Being flexible and scalable, the platform is powered by an open API with modern standards that can process over a billion documents a day, in a timely and accurate manner, liberating content from a previously locked down environment.