SPH Analytics Selects Clinical Architecture's Semantic Normalization and Natural Language Processing Technologies to Provide Next Generation Solutions

CARMEL, IN--(Marketwired - December 14, 2015) - Clinical Architecture, the leading innovator in healthcare terminology management technology, announced today that SPH Analytics (SPHA) has selected Clinical Architecture's solutions to extend the capabilities of its next-generation healthcare analytics platform.

Clinical Architecture's Symedical® platform addresses healthcare interoperability challenges specifically related to the management of clinical and administrative terminologies. Symedical's focus on semantic data normalization enhances the efficacy of clinical information gathered from various sources, positioning SPHA with quality data that can be utilized today and into the future as standards evolve and information sources increase. SPHA will also use SIFT, Clinical Architecture's free text semantic intelligence tool. Powered by a robust terminology infrastructure, SIFT identifies and targets terms, revealing complete, accurate, and actionable information often hidden in free text and turns it in to the structured content needed for action analytics.

"As healthcare providers and payers continue to collaborate, consolidate, and integrate across traditional organizational and market boundaries, the problem of data diversity will grow exponentially," said Al Vega, Chief Executive Officer of SPHA, a leader in action analytics. "We've teamed up with Clinical Architecture to help our clients stay ahead of this game."

The kind of data that next generation analytics require has to be assembled from hundreds of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, electronic health record (EHR) systems, claims processing services, and custom databases. As such, it is notorious for being inconsistent and ambiguous. Rapid market adoption of documents and free text over structured data exacerbates this problem.

"SPHA will implement Clinical Architecture's Symedical platform to accelerate the elimination of ambiguity about what data, terms, and concepts mean within and across providers and payers," said Dr. Ron Ribitzky, M.D., Senior Vice President of Technology Services at SPH Analytics. "We will use Clinical Architecture's SIFT to scale up our document ingestion capacity and our capability to extract semantically vetted information from these documents for comprehensive action analytics across our population health, patient experience, and mandated reporting solutions."

"SPH Analytics understands the value and potential of information waiting to be leveraged across the healthcare continuum," said Charlie Harp, Clinical Architecture Chief Executive Officer. "Our goal is to remove the burden of terminology management so terminology is no longer viewed as a barrier, but as a foundational element of enhanced analytics, allowing SPHA to focus on their core goals and objectives."

About SPH Analytics

SPH Analytics (SPHA) is a leader in action analytics, providing best-in-class solutions and transformative technologies for provider, payer, and health networks. By providing powerful applications, analytics, healthcare surveys, call center services, and consulting, SPHA solutions lead the way for the next generation of healthcare. SPHA enables clients to increase member and patient satisfaction, improve population health, drive patient engagement, and reduce overall cost of care. SPHA solutions incorporate an engaging social-media style user experience, optimized for mobility and communication, to measure data, create easy-to-understand analytics, and empower action. For more information, please visit www.SPHAnalytics.com.

About Clinical Architecture

Clinical Architecture is a healthcare IT solutions provider. We develop software focused on the quality and usability of clinical information. We believe improving the quality and efficacy of clinical information will have a profound effect on care delivery, healthcare costs and overall outcomes. We set out to create solutions to address industry gaps in content acquisition, terminology management, interoperability, decision support and analytics. Informative discussions on a variety of health information technology topics are available at the company's Healthcare IT Blog. For more information, please visit www.ClinicalArchitecture.com. Symedical is a registered trademark of Clinical Architecture, LLC.