Travis May

Today, we are excited to announce the expansion of the Datavant Switchboard to digitize the process of secure patient data release.

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In the last several decades, there have been at least 100 initiatives and companies that have attempted to solve interoperability in healthcare. Yet the fax machine still rules the industry – what went wrong, and how can the industry solve this?

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Explore the landscape of privacy-preserving data sharing technologies, from synthetic data to differential privacy. For each technology, we provide summaries, pros, cons, and our projections for future usage in the healthcare industry.

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Learn how Privacy Hub's privacy-preserving technology maintains data utility while protecting privacy through HIPAA expert determination.

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The United States’ health care system is one of the most technically advanced in the world, yet is struggling to answer even simple questions about COVID-19. Learn more.

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Discover how Datavant Switchboard safely connects health data across the healthcare ecosystem, and eliminates data fragmentation in healthcare.

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3.5 years ago, I founded Datavant to connect the world’s health data to improve patient outcomes. Today, we are announcing the combination of Ciox and Datavant – our biggest step forward to become the neutral, trusted, ubiquitous infrastructure powering the exchange of data across healthcare. This post outlines our vision…

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In a 2018 piece on why American medicine still runs on fax machines, Vox explained why the last decade of US government efforts to automate health data exchange had shown limited results. Earlier this month, new rules from ONC and CMS went into effect focused on making it easier for…

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In the US, there are over 2,000 government health data sets at the federal, state, and local levels, including several…

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Healthcare data is the key to COVID-19 mitigation, but patient data is fragmented across medical claims, diagnostic test, pharmacy, etc.

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Visa’s acquisition of payments company Plaid for $5.3 billion this week has cast a spotlight on an often-ignored part of tech: middleware. Learn more.

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Google Acquiring Fitbit: The battle for the personal health record starts with a skirmish for consumer wearables Google’s acquisition of Fitbit has resulted in many great stories.

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Learn how to link traditional clinical trial data with real-world data and more efficiently recruit patients for clinical trials and measure patient outcomes.

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Learning about my genetic mutation (BRCA2), and optimism for the future of health research Last month, I decided to try Color — one of several new personal genetic sequencing tools.

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Medical research is beginning to make use of “real world data,” the data generated from everyday visits to doctors’ offices by normal patients. A new paper in The Oncologist provides a powerful demonstration...

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Slowly but surely, the pace of change in healthcare is starting to accelerate, and 2019 will be a dynamic year for the industry with major regulatory, technological, and business innovation.

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Last week, Amazon announced the launch of Comprehend Medical, a tool to mine unstructured health data from text. The press around the announcement jumped to the long-term implications of AI mining medical records...

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An overview of data analytics in the patient, provider, payer, and life sciences segments, along with predictions for the future of healthcare data analytics.

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Understand the difference between open and closed healthcare data ecosystems, and how to get to a more open data ecosystem.

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A Survey of The Health Data Ecosystem At Datavant, we’re focused on the vision of connecting the world’s health data to improve patient care and speed the development of new treatments.

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Datavant’s vision is to organize the world’s health data. We believe that this is one of the most important data challenges of this era: if we are successful over the next 20 years, ...

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