HealthIT Answers October 8, 2022
Stephanie Garcia

Real world health data are critical for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR). However, it’s often difficult, expensive, and time consuming for researchers to access real-world clinical health data because of privacy concerns, security restrictions, and usage issues. Although PCOR researchers, health information technology developers, and informaticists often depend on anonymized or de-identified clinical health data for testing theories, data models, algorithms, and prototype innovations, re-identification of anonymized data remains a possible security risk. Synthetic health data can provide a no-risk data source to complement research and support testing needs until real clinical health data are available.

In 2019, ONC launched the Synthetic Health Data Project (Project), enabling Synthea™—a synthetic health data generation engine created by MITRE Corporation—to produce high-quality synthetic health...

Today's Sponsors

LEK
ZeOmega

Today's Sponsor

LEK

 
Topics: Big Data, Govt Agencies, Health IT, ONC, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
Ernst & Young: Health equity efforts maturing, but data capabilities remain barrier
Is Your Company’s Data Ready for Generative AI?
HIMSS24 Healthy datasets are the cornerstone of effective AI initiatives
Healthcare Data Strategy in the Age of AI
CIO Podcast – Episode 71: Data, Analytics, and AI with Richard Clark, PhD

Share This Article