Additional clinical details to power your research
To conduct impactful research and improve patient outcomes, a deep understanding of patient experiences is essential—but traditional structured data often falls short. Optum enriched clinical data fills this gap by using natural language processing to extract disease-specific insights from clinical notes and radiology reports. By enhancing existing EHR data with richer detail, these research-ready cohorts offer a comprehensive view of the patient journey, enabling faster, more informed analysis.
Access rich, disease specific patient data
Reduce time to analysis
Data are research-ready, meaning you can dive right into exploring the data and conducting analyses without the need to comb through and extract information from unstructured notes or radiology reports yourself.
Our expert teams develop detailed requirements for each enriched disease area to generate meaningful variables from millions of clinician notes.
The data you receive are normalized, curated and structured into pre-packaged tables that can be easily analyzed alongside the rest of your licensed Optum data.
Generate better research questions and outputs
Unlock new information only readily found in clinical notes data. With more data on the patient journey, such as reasons for treatment discontinuation or caregiver observations, you can conduct more robust research and produce more generalizable study results.
Tackle business and research questions that you previously struggled to answer with more comprehensive insight into the whole patient and the whole disease.
Conduct research with greater confidence
With a compliantly integrated data source bringing together structured and unstructured sources, you get more available data points per patient, from pre-diagnosis through follow-up.
Working with additional data fields can help improve the quality of your overall research and conclusions.
Key benefits
Curated, clinically relevant concepts
Our enriched data prioritize high-need components that provide you with new, pertinent clinical context for your disease area of interest.
Richer data combined with foundational data
Enriched data maintain the attributes of baseline Optum clinical data — longitudinal, multi-payer, multi-specialty — and span sites of care.
Highly usable, analysis-ready tables
Forgo the in-house legwork of extracting details from unstructured data with packaged tables, transformed and structured by our expert team.
Trusted source data
With more than 300 publications in the past 5 years, clients trust our real-world data to support submissions to peer-reviewed journals.
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