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Creating usable linked patient registries
Creating Usable Linked Patient Registries

Privacy-preserving record linkage tools break down data silos when linking patient registries. Learn which PII to collect for token creation, how to choose platforms that enable linkage, and how to update IRB protocol language.

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Algorithmic Overlap Estimations (part 2)

Evaluating and comparing the estimation algorithms outlined in Part 1 of this post involved curating a diverse set of production datasets that could represent the range of overlap scenarios we’re interested in analyzing. We had previously simplified this as needing to compare

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Building Datavant-UK

Convenet is a single API running on RESTful JSON that connects to 100% of England’s General Practitioner (GP) systems and the UK National Health System (NHS) Spine. We also enable connections to dozens of 3rd-party services, including pharmacies, care homes, and remote medical consultation services.

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Cancer Research Needs Better Databases

This year, a study of ten million people revealed the power of longitudinal research. A team mined a vast medical database of US military personnel, including tissue samples and health records collected over 20 years.

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Patient Matching: Privacy Considerations

Patient matching is critical to improving patient outcomes. Discover how patient health data is linked across the health data ecosystem, providing a holistic view of the patient journey through time.

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Health Data Exchange Challenges to Solve in 2023

Health data ecosystem leaders reveal 4 key health data exchange challenges to be solved in 2023 and how to work together to solve them.

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Why and How to Hire for Potential

I compare it to the Compounding Effect in finance. I’ve written about this since 2018. I think personal growth is very similar to compound interest: it tends to be exponential. A lot of people in the first half of their career journey have the capacity to increase their personal skills at a rate of 2 or 3 times a year.

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Comparing Bloom filters and tokenization for matching de-identified patient data

Datavant’s mission is to connect the world’s healthcare data to improve patient outcomes while maintaining patient privacy. HIPAA has a list of 18 pieces of identifying information that must be removed in order to satisfy the Safe Harbor method of de-identification, and offers further guidance on how parts of patient data can be included in a record while still qualifying as “de-identified.”

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Ksenia Aleksankina: Accelerating Expert-Led Privacy-Preserving Technology for the Health Data Ecosystem

Privacy Hub by Datavant offers industry-leading, independent HIPAA disclosure risk assessment and expert determination products and services, incorporating a breadth of analytical technologies and leveraging decades of experience of the world’s leading experts from across the field.

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