Building patient-level evidence with medical record retrieval

Life sciences teams increasingly need deeper clinical context than standard real-world data sources can provide. Medical record retrieval helps fill critical gaps by transforming source-level clinical documentation into structured, analysis-ready evidence built around a specific patient population and research question.

This resource explores how medical record retrieval can help teams:

• Supplement trial data with real-world clinical context.
• Enrich existing datasets and capture outcomes across providers, care settings, and time.
• Build clinically complete evidence for safety, regulatory, and other high-value use cases.
• Discover how Datavant supports the end-to-end process—from patient intake and record retrieval through abstraction, data delivery, and optional privacy-preserving linkage to other real-world data sources.