DaVita Clinical Research, HealthCare Partners Clinical Research To Merge

(RTTNews) - DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. (DVA) announced that two of its business units, DaVita Clinical Research (DCR) and HealthCare Partners Clinical Research, will merge capabilities to further expand its extensive clinical research and data analytics services, specifically in patients with chronic kidney disease or CKD and end-stage renal disease or ESRD, as well as primary care and chronic disease patients treated in an integrated care organization.

The merger allows both research organizations to offer comprehensive data analytics capabilities on the longitudinal, de-identified data of nearly 1 million active patients receiving care at DaVita HealthCare Partners centers, including 170,000 U.S. dialysis patients receiving care from DaVita Kidney Care and 836,000 multi-specialty patients receiving coordinated, integrated care from HealthCare Partners.