Real-world data

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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Over the past several months, studies have indicated that COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted African American and Hispanic populations, as well as socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Learn more.

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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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"My husband and I are expecting our first child right around the new year. After the initial excitement of learning that we were pregnant, we eagerly set out to learn everything we could to help ensure a healthy pregnancy and delivery...

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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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