Get to know the CEO Mitesh Rao, MD, who is building a new data infrastructure layer for the healthcare world
Dr. Mitesh Rao went from frustrated physician to healthcare data pioneer, building OMNY Health from Atlanta's tech hub.
As Mitesh Rao, MD built up his career in both medicine and healthcare technology, he kept running into the same problem.
“Data is always the bottleneck,” he told Hypepotamus.
The reality is that healthcare teams are dealing with “messy and unusable data” that is siloed across different systems.
That bottleneck has become a business opportunity for Rao and his co-founder Sean O’Brien. Today, Rao (CEO) and O’Brien (CTO) have built OMNY Health to a healthcare data platform that has data from more than 100 million patients across all 50 states that has partnered with major pharmaceutical companies and healthcare systems.
OMNY’s 100 Million Patient Milestone
At its core, OMNY has built a new type of data infrastructure layer. This layer democratizes access to important clinical data. That can improve how healthcare is administered and how research is conducted across the healthcare space. This allows users to get access to rich, representative clinical data no matter where they are located in the United States.
Customers — which include life sciences, MedTech, AI, and healthcare providers — use OMNY Foundation as a structured EHR dataset that provides clinical insights across patient encounters, demographics, diagnoses, procedures, prescriptions, problem lists, clinical assessment scores, and social determinants of health (SDoH), according to the company’s website. By de-identifying EHR data, OMNY allows for a “longitudinal view” of a patient’s journey with both structured and unstructured data sources.
Using OMNY means customers can build research partnerships across the industry quickly and at-scale.
OMNY has been adding new clinical assessment measures to the platform. That includes 300 more in May of this year, across specialities like Dermatology, Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Autoimmune, Gastroenterology, and Neurology. Those measures are added “in collaboration” with OMNY's life sciences and provider partners, according to Rao.
Behind The Numbers
OMNY’s network recently surpassed the 100 million patient mark across the nation, with 45 major healthcare organizations participating in the data network. The company also partners with most major pharmaceutical companies.
In 2022, the company raised a $17 million Series B round from lead investor Chicago Pacific Founders (CPF). Other OMNY investors include AlleyCorp, Alumni Ventures, GSR Ventures, and others, according to Crunchbase.
The Atlanta Chapter
Rao grew up in Chicago and started his career in medicine young. He moved to Philadelphia for medical school and ended up at Yale University for residency.
But as he moved his way through the medical world, he became more and more interested in the intersection of technology and healthcare. That sent him down a new path towards scaling innovations inside healthcare systems. He went on to be the Director of Section of Health Services Evaluation & Policy Research at Northwestern University and Chief Patient Safety Officer at Stanford University.
Rao then connected with Georgia Tech graduate and OMNY co-founder Sean O’Brien, a software architect who designed the core product. Rao started off building OMNY in the Bay Area. But he said moving to Atlanta in 2018 was an “inflection point” for the company, Rao said. '
OMNY's office is currently located at ATDC, in Midtown Atlanta.
While the team started with just four engineers in town, the company scaled quickly in town by recruiting out of Georgia Tech.
OMNY currently has a headcount of 45, a large percentage of whom work out of the company’s Atlanta office.
