The landscape of data utilization is evolving, particularly with the advent of large language models (LLMs). Proprietary data alone is no longer sufficient to maintain a competitive advantage; instead, the focus has shifted towards data activation—transforming raw data into formats that enhance the performance of LLMs. This transformation is crucial, as LLMs can process vast amounts of data but require specific "enzymes" or frameworks to effectively metabolize and utilize this information. The pressing challenge for organizations is to connect their proprietary data to LLMs in ways that yield demonstrable improvements before competitors can replicate their insights. In the healthcare sector, the urgency and potential of data activation are especially pronounced. With a significant portion of ChatGPT's interactions centered around health inquiries, companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are rapidly deploying LLMs tailored for healthcare applications. However, the field remains highly fragmented, indicating both its complexity and the limitations of current general-purpose models. Innovative methods for data activation, such as the Tables2Traces framework, demonstrate how structured medical data can be transformed into actionable insights through contrastive reasoning. This approach has shown promising results, significantly enhancing LLM performance in medical contexts. Despite the progress, challenges persist. The effectiveness of synthetic reasoning traces produced in these frameworks has been questioned by medical professionals, suggesting that while the feasibility of transforming structured data is established, the quality and fidelity of these traces need to be verified further. Moreover, the existing research tends to show improvements primarily in less capable models, raising concerns about scalability and robustness. As the industry searches for the optimal transformations—whether through knowledge graphs, ontology grounding, or other methods—the potential of healthcare data remains largely untapped, likened to energy trapped behind a dam waiting for the right mechanisms to unleash its power.