May 17, 2023 – Datavant, a leader in helping organizations securely connect health data, announces that it is working with Amazon Web Services to help healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate their ability to manage and optimize clinical and patient insights. Pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, research institutions, and healthcare technology customers can now access Datavant’s cutting-edge data de-identification technology in AWS, connect to the hundreds of real world data partners in the Datavant ecosystem, and leverage AWS Clean Rooms with their collaborators to more easily and securely analyze their collective datasets to improve patient care, reduce costs, identify potential clinical trial participants, and speed time to insight with clinical research —without sharing or revealing underlying data.
Healthcare and life sciences customers face challenges in developing comprehensive and longitudinal views of their patients’ health history including data fragmentation, patient privacy protections, access to quality data, and lack of available mechanisms for secure data collaboration. Data from electronic health records (EHRs), clinical trials, and labs are often stored across disparate applications and databases and protected by stringent security policies. Since patient identifying data such as name, address, and date of birth, could lead to a patient’s identity to become known, private patient information is often safeguarded by redacting or excluding it from analyses altogether. However, when patients’ information is completely excluded, it becomes challenging for organizations to gather insights and deliver better, more-informed patient outcomes and experiences. Healthcare and life sciences organizations are looking for ways to work with their collaborators to more easily and securely analyze their datasets to advance innovation, while adhering to patient consent and regulatory compliance requirements.
Datavant’s data de-identification and tokenization capabilities enable their healthcare and life sciences customers to replace their identifiable patient information with an encrypted “token” that can’t be reverse-engineered to reveal the original information from EHR, claims, social determinants of health, long-term post-acute care, and specialty disease data. Organizations can then use AWS Clean Rooms, a HIPAA-eligible service that helps customers and their collaborators to analyze their collective datasets to gain new insights, without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data or moving it outside of AWS.