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Looking Back and Looking Forward: Top Five’s for 2021 and 2022

Happy New Year! We hope your family had a safe and healthy holiday season. 2021 was a busy year for us at OMNY Health, and we made great strides toward building out our ecosystem and supporting our mission of accelerating clinical innovation. To hit the highlights, we’ve put together two Top 5 lists, reminiscing some of our top 2021 achievements and looking ahead at some of the exciting opportunities coming in 2022.

Top 2021 Achievements

Commercial Launch of the OMNY Health Platform

In May, we announced the commercial launch of the OMNY Health Platform, a platform that endeavors to bring together the healthcare ecosystem, centered around data-driven clinical innovation. Since our launch, we have greatly expanded our commercial pipeline with a number of buyers actively evaluating our data offerings and utilizing our platform.  

Successful Completion of SOC 2 Type 1 Certification

In addition to our May product launch, we also achieved SOC2 Type 1 certification that same month. To achieve this our compliance and dev ops teams worked hard to put 25 policies and 90 related controls in place in the first part of the year. Being SOC2 compliant assures our partners that we have the infrastructure, tools, and processes to protect their data and to ensure that organizational controls and practices effectively safeguard the privacy and security of OMNY Health and partner data.  

Massive Integrated Dermatology Data Repository

One month later, we followed our commercial launch with the announcement of our national dermatology data repository. Initially launched with 7.5M+ patient lives, our overall data set now covers 40 of the 50 states, representing 22M+ patient lives, and includes care provided by over 47,000 providers. This represents nearly an 8x growth year over year in our data partnerships. In addition to our Base EHR data offering, we recently launched a product containing Surveys, Questionnaires, and Scores data. This unique offering sets us apart from other vendors, allowing researchers to capture outcomes values provided by providers and patients.  

Research Driven Support for Clinical Innovation

Our biostatistics/data science team has been deep in research mode all year. They have presented over a dozen posters and oral presentations at a number of large conferences this year, including ISPOR Europe, John Snow Labs NLP Summit, ISPE 37th International Conference, DIA Global Annual Conference, and ISPOR Annual Conference. All research has been based on data from our data repository and is helpful to demonstrate the value and utility of the data offerings we provide to customers. These presentations have broached an expansive cross-section of topics from COVID-19 to dermatology to natural language processing (NLP). And despite the holidays, our team spent much of the last few weeks in December hard at work drafting ten submissions for 2022’s ISPOR Annual Conference. 

Strengthened Intellectual Property Portfolio

In addition to one patent that was granted in 2020, we have two new patents that were granted in 2021. The patents granted were Unbiased Drug Selection using Distributed Ledger Technology (US 11,093,552) and Private Currency and Trade Engine (US 11,094,013). We are proud of our innovation team for getting these patents granted.  

Top 2022 Opportunities

Orthopedic and Ophthalmology Data Repository

We’ve been busy signing a number of orthopedic and ophthalmology practices to increase the patient lives and type of data covered in our data repository. Similar to how we built our large dermatology repository in 2021, we expect our numbers in orthopedics and ophthalmology to rival our dermatology data by mid 2022. In addition, we’ve been growing the number of signed health systems and will have broader coverage across additional service lines and specialties coming as well. 

Rapidly Expanding Team

We are growing, and we are hiring! In the last half of 2021, we saw our technical teams double in size, and we expect to almost double in all departments across the board in 2022. We are looking for talented and experienced people who can hit the ground running. We have a number of open roles available on our careers page  and invite you to please send good people our way.  

PandemicX Cohort

In December, we announced that we are one of the fifteen health tech startups accepted into the 2022 PandemicX Cohort. We will be working closely with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Mass Challenge Health Tech to use data to help solve the problems of health equity that have been brought to light by the pandemic. This aligns well with our mission, and we cannot wait to get started on this project. 

Data Expansion

In 2021, the introduction of our EHR data sets allowed us to become a major player in the industry. In 2022, we hope to expand those data sets even more with the addition of claims data. The augmentation of EHR data with claims data expands the opportunities and types of studies for which our data can be used. Throughout 2021, we have been building our capabilities for using natural language processing (NLP) to extract structured fields from unstructured notes data. This coming year, we expect to refine our processing and productize much of this data. 

Insights Beyond the Data

In the coming year, our roadmap includes a number of reports and dashboards that take a step beyond just data and into the realm of insights. We have been working closely with both sides of our ecosystem on some beta products that will allow users to make faster, more data-driven decisions. 

As you can see, we did some BIG things in 2021, but have even BIGGER things coming in 2022. Thank you to all of our partners, investors, and customers for your collaboration and support. We could not be where we are today without your help. And we look forward to continuing to build on these relationships in the coming year. Cheers to all the things to come in the New Year!

About the Author:
Dr. Mitesh Rao is the Founder and CEO of OMNY Health. A Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Physician, Dr. Rao has held executive roles at both Stanford’s and Northwestern’s health systems, where he helped lead patient safety and innovation. As a physician leader and executive, he has helped implement systems-level improvements for quality and safety in institutions across the country and overseas that have had lasting effects on care provision. Throughout his career, Dr. Rao has helped implement and scale new technologies within the clinical venue and serves as a mentor to multiple startups and accelerator groups across the country in order to help guide the development of innovative solutions that can sustainably impact patient care.

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Sensyne Health and OMNY Health Sign Teaming Agreement to Support Breakthrough Research Through the Power of Real World Data and AI

Sensyne and OMNY will collaborate to develop new proposals to life sciences companies and healthcare providers to use real world data and advanced analytical tools to improve patient outcomes and accelerate the development of new medicines

The Teaming Agreement allows OMNY to engage Sensyne’s data analytics tools and consulting services and provides Sensyne with the potential to access OMNY Health’s 22 million de-identified patient records

Dover, DE and Atlanta, GA. Oxford, U.K. October 13, 2021: Sensyne Health plc (LSE: SENS) (“Sensyne”), the ethical Clinical AI company, and OMNY Health (“OMNY”), a leading US-based real world data company, today announced a strategic teaming relationship.

The arrangement establishes a nimble framework under which Sensyne can subscribe to data offerings via the OMNY Health Platform, which features more than 22 million de-identified patient records across broad therapeutic areas in support of Sensyne’s data analytics work for life science companies. In addition, Sensyne and OMNY have agreed to work together on commercial projects for life science clients to advance and accelerate ethical medical research.  By bringing biopharma clients a joint offering with OMNY real-world data and Sensyne machine learning expertise, both companies—and their health system partners—will have more opportunities to support important life sciences research.

The OMNY data network complements Sensyne’s existing global medical research dataset of 22.1 million patients, ethically sourced through strategic partnerships with US health systems and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) trusts. With representation from  over 50,000 providers across 40 states, the OMNY Health Platform also offers control, security, and data governance to maximize the utility of information while maintaining compliance with US regulations.  Sensyne will now have a new avenue to access data from OMNY’s catalog of over 22 million unique patient records, significantly enhancing the scale of real world data on which Sensyne can apply its advanced machine learning and bringing the possible combined total of de-identified patient data available for collaborative research to over 44m patients.  

Derek Baird, President, North America, Sensyne Health said:

“This relationship has been forged on a mutual belief in the power of real-world data to support breakthrough insights and discoveries. The team at OMNY, like us, appreciate the complexity of working with longitudinal clinical records, and the trust that health systems place in our companies to analyse de-identified patient data in an ethical, secure, and responsible way.  We share common philosophies and missions, and complementary approaches in responsibly using real-world data to accelerate life science research for clients. This is an exciting alliance, and we are thrilled to be working together.”

Mitesh Rao, MD, CEO, OMNY Health said:

“OMNY Health embraces the opportunity to work with Sensyne Health’s world-class machine learning team and data science professionals, and is thrilled for Sensyne to join the platform.  We aim to revolutionize the healthcare ecosystem through our equality-driven data network while unlocking transformative real world data partnerships across the life sciences industry. This collaboration with Sensyne Health creates even greater possibilities to apply emerging technologies to the unparalleled data we’ve assembled, enabling both companies to ethically innovate on behalf of our respective partners, and most importantly, to create better outcomes for patients.”
Sensyne is working with life science partners on different types of research projects across multiple disease areas. The actionable insights from OMNY’s longitudinal patient data sets will help them with synthetic control arms, patient stratification, patient identification and selection, plus important late-phase clinical trial design, commercialisation, and health economic pricing decisions.

For more information email: lifesciences@omnyhealth.com.

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OMNY Health Launches Massive Integrated Dermatology Data Repository and Research Network to Advance Life-Changing Innovations for Patients Suffering from Skin-Related Conditions

ATLANTA, June 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — OMNY Health (OMNY Inc.) is pleased to announce it has partnered with the nation’s leading community-based dermatology practices to create a first-of-a-kind integrated, normalized, de-identified electronic health record (EHR) data repository for dermatological research.

The assembled longitudinal data represents care delivered over the past five years by over 1,000 dermatologic providers in more than 30 states, across more than 7.5 million unique patients. OMNY Health works with providers to integrate and standardize their siloed disparate EHR data, enabling the delivery of de-identified data into research-ready subscriptions for Life Sciences organizations, while also delivering insights based on the normalized data back to the data contributors.

At the core of the OMNY Health platform is de-identified, normalized EHR data, further enhanced with tokens that support linkages to data derived from administrative claims, registries and other data resources, while maintaining patient anonymity. OMNY Health leverages natural language processing (NLP) technology to analyze unstructured data to derive insights often buried in clinician notes, such as adverse drug events, social determinants of health, and reasons for therapy changes.

“We are excited to partner with these forward-thinking dermatology providers to launch OMNY Health’s first suite of specialty databases. As the number of specialty treatment options expands, OMNY Health provides an ideal platform for delivering scalable data solutions to life sciences companies needing to understand the care delivered by the diverse mix of providers treating patients along their care journey. Data available on the platform provides the information needed to better understand the patient and provider landscape, design and identify eligible patients for trials, monitor the impact of launch of new therapies in the real-world setting, and evaluate safety and effectiveness of those therapies”, said Dr. Mitesh Rao, CEO at OMNY Health.

Investment in dermatology has experienced double-digit growth over the past several years and is expected to continue to grow, particularly for the conditions falling at the intersection of inflammatory and autoimmune skin disorders, such as alopecia areata, psoriasis, and atopic dermatitis. “We can now address the retrospective and prospective data and analytic needs of life sciences organizations working on treatments for some of the rarest dermatologic conditions, such as epidermolysis bullosa and generalized pustular psoriasis, to common conditions such as acne, and everything in between,” said Stacey Long, Chief Strategy Officer, who oversees OMNY Health’s product and data science teams.

“Advanced Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery, the nation’s premier dermatology practice, values our partnership with OMNY. As we actively explore cutting edge therapeutics and leverage our robust data set to find ways to best serve our patients and the dermatology community, a collaboration with an advanced partner, like OMNY is crucial to our long-term success.” Allison W. Lynch, Chief Operating Officer, Clinical Research

“We are excited to partner with OMNY Health in looking at real world data. It’s an invaluable resource that creates improved patient outcomes, quality metrics, cost efficiencies, and tools for evaluating best practice opportunities. It also allows for prospective research to evaluate new ideas, therapies, and measurement tools that can assist in making better decisions for patients, physicians, payers, and the industry,” said Dr. Mark Jackson, Clinical Professor of Dermatology, University of Louisville and Director of Medical/Clinical Research, Forefront Dermatology.

Dr. Jackson will join Lawrence Rasouliyan, OMNY Health’s Head of Biostatistics and Data Science, on June 24, for a webinar discussion on the vital role of physicians in supporting real-world evidence generation in dermatology and the transformative opportunity for patients, providers, and life sciences organizations. Register at Events & Webinars

About OMNY Health

OMNY Health connects patients, providers, and life sciences companies through data and insights to transform healthcare delivery, improve clinical outcomes, and address patient’s unmet needs. For more information, go to https://marketing-dev.omnyhealth.com/ or email: lifesciences@omnyhealth.com.

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Accelerate the Pace of Life-Changing Innovation

Hidden deep in healthcare data lies powerful insights and clinical revelations. Knowledge, that when shared with healthcare visionaries, can spark actions that will accelerate the pace of life changing innovations.  Curating this wealth of knowledge requires precise data handling and a sharp focus on balancing two important factors:  Patient Privacy and Care Innovation.  

OMNY Health’s technology solutions deliver immediate value to Life Sciences researchers by delivering standardized patient, encounter, notes, and supply data from a diverse set of providers in a secure cloud platform. With off-the-shelf data, dashboards, reports, and analytics available in a variety of formats and combinations, time to insights and decisions accelerate, so your team can focus on improving access to effective treatments and transforming the lives of patients. OMNY works closely with integrated delivery networks, community hospital systems, and even specialty practices to harmonize their data, enable custom analytics and create a real-word data pipeline. 

These clinical insights are shared with Life Sciences companies for use in expediting Research & Development, driving new therapy launches and accelerating commercialization strategies. And while providers and pharmaceutical innovators benefit significantly from the standardization and flow of useful data, the ultimate winners are the patients.

Here’s an example:

Working with 2 health systems, we uncovered insights that directly informed treatment decisions for Myasthenia Gravis, or MG, patients and powered pre-launch research for a new innovative MG drug . What’s more, we provided real-world context to understand MG therapy burden and barriers to care.

Healthcare data holds the promise of clinical innovation. OMNY can connect you with the quality data you need to inform and transform actions that will make a real difference in patients’ lives. The future of healthcare is accessible today.

 To learn more about this story and how to partner with OMNY Health, please contact us.

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OMNY Health Launches Platform to Accelerate Life-Changing Innovations through Data-Driven Insights

Connects data from hospitals, health systems, specialty medical groups with life sciences researchers 

ATLANTA, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — OMNY Health (OMNY Inc.) today announced commercial availability of the OMNY Health Platform™,  a healthcare data-sharing solution that accelerates innovation by connecting the healthcare ecosystem with opportunities to connect anonymized data with researchers from life sciences organizations. Platform clients can use this data to develop new therapies, enhance treatment availability, and measure effectiveness.

The use of anonymized real-world treatment data to support life sciences companies’ decision-making across healthcare is not new. It is, however, often done without the direct involvement of healthcare providers — the originators of the information. The OMNY Health Platform offers provider organizations of all sizes the ability to participate in data-sharing partnerships with life sciences organizations to support research activities in an efficient and compliant manner.

“As a healthcare executive focused on patient safety and quality, I was often frustrated with our inability to efficiently partner with life sciences companies to help address patients’ treatment challenges and understand unmet needs,” said Mitesh Rao MD, CEO and Founder of OMNY Health. “OMNY Health provides a trusted, compliant solution for patients and providers to build transparent and secure data-driven relationships at scale and with minimal effort.”

The OMNY Health Platform centers on de-identified, normalized electronic health record data, enhanced with tokens that support links across the data ecosystem, all while preserving patient anonymity.  A diverse set of hospitals, health systems, and specialty provider organizations have already agreed to join the network, representing care delivered in more than 39 states and more than 10 million patient lives.

The platform contains more than 100 pre-packaged searchable and downloadable data offerings, aligned to strategic therapeutic areas, drug classes, and procedure groups.  The direct-from-source data on the platform cover both inpatient and outpatient care and all payer types. OMNY can also provide custom data cuts and analyses for life sciences researchers.  Insights from these data can help better understand unmet patient needs, design more efficient clinical trials, and inform strategies to address challenges in access to care.

The number of organizations opting to participate on the data sharing platform is rapidly growing, as are the types of data being made available.

“We focused on creating a flexible, scalable architecture that supports the diverse set of data needed by life sciences organizations to meet multiple use cases across the value chain, and one that could easily integrate into their workflows,” said Sean O’Brien, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at OMNY.  “Time and budget constraints can hinder life sciences companies from getting the information needed for faster, more-effective decision-making.  Our platform specifically addresses these challenges.”

Solution demonstrations and studies showcasing the diverse data available via the OMNY Health Platform are scheduled to be presented during a variety of events this summer, including ISPOR, DIA, and ICPE.

About OMNY Health OMNY Health connects patients, providers, and life sciences companies through data and insights to accelerate life-changing innovation.  Our easy-to-use, secure platform enables life sciences organizations to engage in collaborative data and research partnerships efficiently, compliantly, and at scale.

The team at OMNY Health imagines a future of patient-centered and evidence-based care. We’ll achieve that mission through a seamless workflow of analysis-to-insight-to-decision-making based on a connected ecosystem of healthcare data and collaboration across the healthcare ecosystem.   

For more information visit www.marketing-dev.omnyhealth.com or e-mail:lifesciences@omnyhealth.com.

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OMNY Health™ Debuts at Health 2.0 Launch!

Eight new digital companies took the stage at Health 2.0’s Annual Conference in San Francisco on September 20, 2019 to give the first public demos of their products for the show’s annual “Launch!” event.

OMNY Health™, which aims to disrupt data sharing and give providers more control over the data they sell, took home the audience vote and the $5,000 grand prize. All eight companies boasted interesting ideas and impressive accomplishments so far, and we are honored to be in their company.

To read more, please visit mobihealthnews.com.

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BTG and OMNY Health™ Partner to Improve Treatment

For the estimated 7,000 individuals bitten by rattlesnakes, copperheads, and cottonmouths in the U.S. each year, “time is tissue” and timely treatment is critical. Patients that are not quickly and appropriately treated are at risk of skin and tissue damage, limb function disability or loss, neurotoxic effects, dangerous internal bleeding, and systemic injury to the heart, stomach, and other organs. This makes it important to understand and manage antivenom stock levels.

Using the OMNY Health™ platform, near real-time data about CroFab® stock levels at participating healthcare institutions will be captured and securely shared with BTG and the Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Center (RMPDC), and in time will expand to additional healthcare providers and poison control centers.

For more details, please read the press release.