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Railway track with switch and interchange getty In the late 1800s, the U.S. railroad system didn’t just revolutionize transportation—it catalyzed entirely new industries. Refrigerated railcars enabled a national meatpacking economy. Standard time zones emerged. Towns, banks, and industrial supply chains took shape around the infrastructure. In short, once the railroads laid the tracks, new economic possibilities exploded. We are witnessing something similar in healthcare today. The convergence of powerful forces has opened a new frontier for how data can be used to accelerate innovation in medicine and care delivery. These forces include the mass digitization of health records through the EHR Incentive Program, policy pushes like the 21st Century Cures Act mandating interoperability, the explosion in computing power and cloud infrastructure, breakthroughs in AI and LLMs, and record levels of venture investment in digital health infrastructure. Together, these forces are enabling a new kind of infrastructure: health data platforms that aggregate, normalize, curate, and make deidentified health records accessible for use across the healthcare ecosystem. The promise of this infrastructure is hard to overstate. Much of modern medicine has come about through the rigorous, time- and labor-intensive nature of clinical trials. Data infrastructure that allows researchers to understand how procedures, devices, and therapeutics are being used (often in ways that vary from protocols in clinical trials) in the real world, however, represents a potential for a paradigm shift. Much like the railroads of old, these platforms are enabling entirely new markets to emerge around them—including the rapidly expanding space of real world data (RWD), which promises to change how innovation is done in life sciences, medical devices, health services, and beyond. II. The Market for Deidentified Health Data: How It Evolved, What It Enables The market for deidentified health data has evolved quickly, shaped by both policy and technological change.…

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