Apixio announced today the release of its new cognitive computing platform, Iris, which it says will bring advanced data insights to healthcare by extracting and analyzing medical data previously trapped in electronic health records. The U.S. annually produces 1.2 billion clinical care documents, but about 80 percent of the data is unstructured and difficult to access. “Making sense of unstructured healthcare data is extremely challenging and requires sophisticated technology like cognitive computing to make the information useful,” said Bob Rogers, chief data scientist at Intel, and one of Apixio’s co-founders, in a press statement.