By Srini Burugapalli , Chief Data Architect at Truveta Hospitals produce varied patient data including structured electronic health records (EHRs), labs, medications, billing; unstructured clinical notes; imaging; physiological monitoring signals; wearables; genomic data. Researchers and clinicians need these data to be clean, consistent, comparable across institutions, and traceable to their source. But every hospital runs different software, uses different field names for the same concepts, and delivers data in different formats.