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Escape Sequence

Phil Ballentine

Data marginalia | What lies beneath | Healthcare data engineering

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    I lead Data Engineering at Atropos Health, a startup that provides on-demand evidence from EHR/claims data. I created and taught EHR Data 101 at Out of Pocket and teach graduate courses in health data & data engineering at Tufts University.

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