Datavant to Acquire Aetion, Empowering Healthcare and Life Sciences Organizations to Generate High-Quality, Scalable Real-World Evidence from Connected, Privacy-Protected Data

Healthcare IT News 16 June 2025

Datavant, a leading health data platform company, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Aetion, a leading real-world evidence (RWE) platform that powers critical decision-making in healthcare. With this acquisition, Aetion will join Datavant to deliver an end-to-end RWE platform, enabling healthcare and life sciences companies to more efficiently answer research questions about the clinical impact of therapies in development and in market.

Upon closing, Datavant and Aetion will have a combined ecosystem of over 300 data partners. Datavant’s RWD partners comprise datasets across electronic health records, claims, specialty pharmacy, registries, imaging, lab, social determinants of health, and more. With Aetion, RWD partners across the Datavant ecosystem will gain improved visibility of their data’s utility through sharper querying of the datasets, scaling value, demand, and additional use cases across a more expansive base of life sciences companies.

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