Ontada®, a McKesson business and leader in community oncology real-world data, clinical education, and point of care technologies, has announced a strategic collaboration with Datavant, a health data platform, to include Ontada’s data in their health ecosystem. This collaboration aims to help life science companies quickly access Ontada’s real-world data, accelerating the discovery of critical insights that drive oncology innovation and improve the lives of cancer patients.

Ontada’s real-world data provides comprehensive insights throughout the patient journey, and a unique view of community cancer care, representing data from more than 2.4 million patients across more than 80 tumor types from The US Oncology Network (The Network). The Network is a leading organization of independent, community-based practices dedicated to advancing local cancer care and better patient outcomes.

"As the importance of real-world data in oncology continues to grow and the volume of data continues to increase, evaluating new data sources can be time-consuming," said Amy O'Sullivan, senior vice president and chief research officer at Ontada. "Our Life Sciences partners need a quick way to identify data sources that will meet their needs and support their efforts to transform cancer treatment. Through our collaboration with Datavant, we're enabling acceleration of fit-for-purpose data identification and time to insights, whether they be for generating real-world evidence, shaping commercial strategies, or developing new drugs."

“Anyone who has been impacted by cancer knows that access to new treatments cannot happen fast enough,” said Arnaub Chatterjee, President and GM of Life Sciences, Ecosystem, and Public Sector at Datavant. “We look forward to leveraging the breadth of the Datavant real world data ecosystem alongside Ontada’s community-level insights to power oncology health economics and outcomes research -- and to support all who are working to bring the next generation of life-altering oncology therapies to patients sooner.”

Ontada recently collaborated with Microsoft in October to leverage the company's artificial intelligence capabilities, transforming vast amounts of unstructured healthcare data into actionable insights. And through this collaboration with Datavant, Ontada’s data will enable researchers to maximize the potential of their data and extract valuable clinical information more effectively.

Ontada's proprietary database is fed by The Network, which treats one in five cancer patients in the U.S. and has particular expertise in community settings, where 85% of patients are treated. Through the collaboration with Datavant, Ontada's partners will now have secure, tokenized access to this representative database at their fingertips.