Interview with Datavant's Bob Borek and Jason LaBonte

Datavant is fostering an ecosystem of healthcare data to facilitate secure exchange of information and analytics that improve patient care. The company recently made headlines through a $7 Billion merger with Ciox, uniting Datavant’s world of de-identified data with Ciox’s domain expertise in patient identified records.In this episode of the HealthBiz podcast, Datavant’s Chief Strategy Officer Jason LaBonte and Chief Operating Officer Bob Borek discuss the evolution of healthcare data, the Ciox merger, how the company has fared during the pandemic, and their long term vision.Jason is reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir --whose fiction appeals to Jason’s training as a PhD scientist-- and Bob likes Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner about the history of water rights in the West.

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By healthcare business consultant David E. Williams, president of Health Business Group.