Health IT Analytics January 25, 2021
The Synthetic Health Data Challenge will support researchers and developers in testing the effectiveness of big data analytics tools and algorithms.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has launched the Synthetic Health Data Challenge, an effort to encourage the development of big data analytics tools using realistic – but not real – health record data.
Synthetic health data contains a complete medical history from birth to death. This data can be used without cost or restriction and is meant to support the specific interests of researchers and developers testing the effectiveness of tools, data analytics algorithms, and disease modeling approaches.
The challenge is part of ONC’s Synthetic Health Data Generation to Accelerate Patient-Centered Outcomes Research...