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Real-world data
Learn about the use of real-world data (RWD) in healthcare. Explore the use of RWD in clinical research, drug development, and patient insights.
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Introducing Datavant Switchboard
Discover how Datavant Switchboard safely connects health data across the healthcare ecosystem, and eliminates data fragmentation in healthcare.
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The Burden of COVID-19 on Primary Care
There is growing interest in understanding the patient impact of COVID-19 not just during an acute case, but long afterwards. The mounting evidence of longer-term mental and physical effects suggests…
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Datavant 2.0: Connecting the World’s Health Data to Improve Patient Outcomes
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…
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Why the New Interoperability Rules Don’t Yet Mean the Death of the Fax Machine
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…
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The Fragmentation of Public Health Data
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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Further Evidence that COVID-19 Disproportionately Impacts African American, Hispanic, and Low-Income Populations
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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How America’s Healthcare Data Ecosystem Is Being Used to Fight COVID-19
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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The Golden Age of Middleware: Why Visa Has Always Been a Great Middleware Company [And Why Buying Plaid Makes Sense]
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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