Date: 2018-01-05
Type of information: Collaboration agreement
Compound: healthcare data
Company: Datavant (USA - CA) Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) (USA - NC)
Therapeutic area: Technology - Services
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- • On January 5, 2018, Datavant, a healthcare technology company that organizes the world’s healthcare data, announced the integration of its 150th dataset, and named the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) as its Founding Academic Partner.
- In the three months since its launch, Datavant has sourced and integrated 150 datasets, incorporating a diverse range of data types including pharmaceutical clinical trial data, claims data, pharmacy data, electronic health records, and genomics, among others. Datavant is forging strategic partnerships with leading pharmaceutical companies, payers, providers, and analytics companies to build an ecosystem of data that represents over 150 million unique patients, and includes detailed clinical trial outcomes from over 33,000 trials. This data is being used to improve clinical trial design and interpretation with the aim of ultimately bringing more medicines to market for patients.
- In addition to its sustained momentum acquiring and integrating datasets, Datavant has assembled a leading team of technology and healthcare experts, including:
- President and Co-Founder Travis May, who was previously Co-Founder and CEO of LiveRamp, a marketing technology company he grew to over $200 million in revenue (acquired by Acxiom)
- Chief Scientific Officer Eric Perakslis, former CIO and Chief Scientist at the FDA and SVP of Bioinformatics at Takeda
- Head of Pharmaceutical Solutions Kailash Swarna, a former Associate Partner at IBM Global Business Services and Watson Health
- Head of Engineering and Data Science Aneesh Kulkarni, a former data science leader at Lyft
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