# IMO

> IMO, branded IMO Health since 2024, supplies clinical terminology, code mappings, data normalization, and AI tools to healthcare organizations. Its software connects the language clinicians use with the standardized data needed for documentation, reimbursement, analytics, and research.

- **Founded:** 1994
- **Headquarters:** Rosemont, United States
- **Founders:** Frank Naeymi-Rad (Co-founder; former CEO and chairman)
- **Products:** IMO Core, IMO Core Procedure, IMO Core Periop, IMO Precision Normalize, IMO Precision Sets
- **Notable:** Epic adopted IMO terminology in 2004., Completed its first acquisition, Melax Tech, in May 2023., Reported 12 billion annual terminology searches in April 2026.

## Products & services

- **IMO Core** — Clinical interface terminology and code mappings for diagnosis documentation and problem-list workflows.
- **IMO Core Procedure** — Procedure, surgery, lab, and medication terminology with billing and reference code mappings.
- **IMO Core Periop** — Maintained surgical procedure dictionaries and associated codes for perioperative workflows.
- **IMO Precision Normalize** — Standardizes clinical data; NLP added in 2023 extracts concepts and context from free text. API, SaaS, and self-hosted deployment options.
- **IMO Precision Sets** — Tools and curated content for creating, comparing, updating, and sharing clinical value sets. Current tooling launched in 2023; earlier value-set libraries predate it.
- **IMO Studio** — Cloud workspace for accessing and managing IMO terminology, code sets, and data tools.
- **IMO Knowledge Graph direct access** — GraphQL API and MCP server access to clinically curated relationships for healthcare application and AI developers.
- **IMO Clinical AI** — NLP and AI capabilities for extracting biomedical information and supporting workflows including clinical research and literature review.

## Achievements

- Epic adopted IMO terminology in 2004.
- Completed its first acquisition, Melax Tech, in May 2023.
- Reported 12 billion annual terminology searches in April 2026.
- Opened direct Knowledge Graph access through GraphQL and MCP in April 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Launched direct Knowledge Graph access through GraphQL and an MCP server.
- **2026-07** — Announced an insulin-pump patient-identification pilot with Modular Medical.
- **2026-09** — Published an atrial-fibrillation Knowledge Graph sandbox walkthrough and a short medication-to-differential-diagnosis agent demo.

## Links

- Website: https://www.imohealth.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/imohealth/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/IMOsolutions
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IMOHealthSolutions

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Last updated: 2026-10-24