Datavant and Veritas expand collaboration enhance access to US mortality data for clinical and real-world research 

Datavant and Veritas Data Research have deepened their partnership to improve the availability and integration of high-quality mortality data for life sciences research, aiming to support survival analysis, safety monitoring, and regulatory decision-making. 

Mortality data is a key endpoint in clinical research, yet it is often missing or incomplete in medical claims and electronic health record (EHR) datasets. This can make it difficult for organizations to capture survival outcomes with accuracy and timeliness. Supplementing existing sources with Veritas’s files can help identify survival events faster and with greater reliability. 

Veritas offers what it describes as the most comprehensive mortality dataset in the US, compiled from diverse online and offline sources and validated against public records. The dataset includes both Fact of Death and Cause of Death files, curated for completeness, timeliness, and real-world usability. 

According to the companies, the partnership creates “the most accessible point of access for clinical cause-of-death data with research-ready attributes.” By linking mortality data with other real-world datasets, researchers can generate fit-for-purpose, tokenized datasets that meet evolving regulatory expectations for long-term outcomes tracking in decentralized and post-marketing studies. 

Arnaub Chatterjee, President and General Manager of Life Sciences at Datavant, said:  

“Veritas has built a mortality dataset that delivers critical insights to researchers in terms of completeness, timeliness, and real-world usability. By scaling access to their dataset across our 300+ real-world data partners, we’re enabling researchers to access mortality signals earlier and in a more integrated format than ever before.” 

As part of the expansion, Veritas has registered its mortality dataset on Datavant Connect, powered by AWS Clean Rooms. This platform enables researchers to rapidly discover, access, and integrate mortality data into studies through a secure environment, allowing data providers and researchers to collaborate without exchanging raw data. 

Veritas CEO Jason LaBonte noted that Datavant is helping strengthen the broader health data ecosystem by expanding access to high-value datasets such as mortality data and by building secure infrastructure that supports seamless collaboration between data providers and researchers.  

“This extension of our multi-year relationship means life sciences teams can tap into mortality data earlier and at scale, through the secure, privacy-preserving infrastructure that Datavant provides,” he said.