Jan 6Lessons from DatavantLast week marked the end of my 5-year tenure leading Datavant (I’ll continue to be on the Board and close to the company in many ways (and very excited about its future!), but will be stepping out of day-to-day operations). Five years ago, we set out with an ambitious goal…12 min read12 min read
Jun 22, 2022The Future of Accessing Your Health DataIt is too hard for patients to get access to their medical records today. Regulations going into effect this year from the 21st Century Cures Act, combined with the growing digitization of health records, are set to change this paradigm. Today, Ciox (a Datavant company) is announcing a comprehensive solution…6 min read6 min read
Apr 20, 2022Expanding Datavant Switchboard for Digital Release of InformationToday, we are excited to announce the expansion of the Datavant Switchboard to digitize the process of secure patient data release. This post outlines how patient data moves throughout the healthcare system today, how the Datavant Switchboard is transforming release of information, and where the platform is going in the…4 min read4 min read
Apr 18, 2022The Graveyard of Interoperability Initiatives in the Past & How We Can Drive the FutureIn the last several decades, there have been at least 100 initiatives and companies that have attempted to solve interoperability in healthcare. Yet the fax machine still rules the industry — what went wrong, and how can the industry solve this? In the United States alone, millions of healthcare visits…10 min read10 min read
Published in Datavant·Nov 10, 2021Announcing Privacy Hub and the Future of Privacy-Preserving Technologiesby Travis May Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the Datavant Privacy Hub and the acquisition of Mirador Analytics, the leading provider of HIPAA expert determination services. This is a major milestone for Datavant, and a huge step forward on our mission to connect the world’s health…5 min read5 min read
Sep 21, 2021America’s COVID-19 Data GapCo-authored by Niall Brennan, Mark Cullen, and Travis May. Mr. Brennan is the CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute and former Chief Data Officer of CMS. Dr. Cullen is a former Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and led the Center for Population Health Sciences. Mr. …5 min read5 min read
Jul 28, 2021Introducing the Datavant SwitchboardToday, we are thrilled to announce Datavant Switchboard, our next step in helping companies safely connect data. This post will walk through the problem we’re tackling, how the Datavant Switchboard works, and how it is used across the healthcare ecosystem. Background: The Challenge We’re Tackling One of the most important…7 min read7 min read
Jun 9, 2021Datavant 2.0: Connecting the World’s Health Data to Improve Patient Outcomes3.5 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. …6 min read6 min read
Apr 26, 2021Why the new interoperability rules don’t yet mean the death of the fax machineIn 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 went into effect focused on making it easier for patients to access their…8 min read8 min read
Feb 1, 2021The Fragmentation of Public Health DataIn the US, there are over 2,000 government health data sets at the federal, state, and local levels, including several of the largest surveillance databases (such as FDA’s Sentinel and the CDC’s surveillance infrastructure), one of the world’s largest claims databases (CMS data), and one of the largest electronic medical…11 min read11 min read
