Datavant Blog

Explore the evolution of an engineer to leader at Datavant. Learn how early responsibility drove growth, navigated challenges, and led to impactful projects.

Privacy-preserving record linkage enhances treatment strategies, disease understanding, and patient care. Discover the challenges and potential of registry linkage.

Compare overlap estimation algorithms including token-based sampling, HyperLogLog, HyperMinHash, and Bloom filters. Analyze pros, cons, and evaluation results.

Discover how Datavant connects to UK GP systems and the NHS Spine for robust patient record retrieval. Learn about Datavant’s goals for secure data flow.

Patient matching is critical to improving patient outcomes. Discover how patient health data is linked across the health data ecosystem.

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

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.

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.”

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.