Datavant vs Ankr

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Datavant is a health data company founded in 2017 that has built the largest real-world health data ecosystem in the United States through its privacy-preserving data tokenization technology. The company's platform enables healthcare organizations including hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and research institutions to link patient records across databases without sharing identifying information, using consistent de-identified tokens that allow data to be joined securely. Datavant raised over $600M and expanded significantly through its merger with Ciox Health, combining Datavant's tokenization technology with Ciox's medical record retrieval operations. The company serves life sciences companies that need real-world evidence from claims, EHR, and specialty data sources, payers managing population health programs, and health systems that want to generate revenue from their patient data while maintaining privacy compliance. Datavant's network effect grows as more organizations adopt the tokenization standard, making the ecosystem more valuable for every participant. The platform has become critical infrastructure for real-world evidence generation in pharmaceutical development and health economics research.