India, June 19 -- Imagine a situation where a health care provider generates a routine blood pressure reading and sends it to a centralised data repository. Depending on the system in use at the clinic, this data could potentially be presented in at least three different formats: as free text, as two separate observations of systolic and diastolic pressure with standard LOINC codes, or a single string, like 120/80 mmHg. A trained healthcare professional will be able to instantly interpret it, irrespective of the format, but it could throw a technology platform, which needs explicit rules to understand it, into flux.

This is just one of the reasons why healthcare data ingestion remains a core challenge that the industry must tackle to tru...