Datavant
Datavant is a health information technology company based in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, which develops and maintains a digital ecosystem for the exchange of healthcare data. Datavant's clients include clinical research organizations, pharmaceutical companies, payers, analytics companies, hospitals, and providers, operating primarily in the US healthcare market.
Along with the Health Care Cost Institute, Snowflake, Elsevier, Parexel, and others, Datavant operates the COVID-19 Research Database, which "enables public health and policy researchers to use real-world data to understand and combat the COVID-19 pandemic".
History
Datavant was co-founded by Travis May in 2017 with a focus on data management in support of clinical trials. Datavant's founding CEO was Travis May, a former co-founder of LiveRamp.The company received a $40.5 million Series A investment in 2018 led by Roivant Sciences, followed by a $40 million Series B investment in 2020. In June 2021, Datavant entered into a $7 billion dollar deal to merge with the healthcare information management company Ciox Health. Following the merger, May became president and joined the company's board, while Ciox's CEO Pete McCabe become the CEO of the joint entity that continued under the Datavant name. Also in June 2021, Datavant announced a partnership with Biodesix, a life sciences diagnostics solutions company.
Since May 2024, the CEO of Datavant is Kyle Armbrester.
Ciox Health
Ciox Health was formerly known as HealthPort Incorporated and changed its name to CIOX Health in March 2016. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.Ciox Health was created by the merger of HealthPort, IOD Inc., Care Communications Inc. and ECS. It served more than 18,000 provider sites, 140 health plans and 1 million unique requesters of patient information.
In April 2017 Ciox Health acquired ArroHealth, a provider of chart retrieval and risk adjustment services for health plans and health care provider groups. The Hauppauge, New York-based target offers a variety of services, including: analytics, medical record retrieval, data aggregation, and risk adjustment coding.
Data Breaches & Legal
2021
In July 2021, CIOX Health discovered an unauthorized individual had gained access to the email of an employee in the customer service department. The email account was immediately secured, with the subsequent investigation confirming the email account had first been accessed by an unauthorized individual on June 24, 2021, and access remained possible until the security breach was detected on July 2, 2021. CIOX health started notifying affected healthcare provider clients about the breach on December 30, 2021.The HIPAA security breach was reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights by CIOX Health as affecting 12,493 individuals.