Data science applications for healthcare are finally trying to catch up to the rest of the world, with one new effort coming from six-year-old Apixio in San Mateo, CA. This morning, the company is launching a cognitive computing platform called Iris that derives insights from clinical data and other information in the health system. More specifically, Iris uses a powerful data integration and extraction suite and pipelines restructured data into a machine learning model that should, in theory, enable its healthcare provider customers the ability to better understand patient health.