Healthcare IT News January 20, 2021
The use of realistic health record information that mimics lifelong medical histories can enable more innovative algorithms for disease modeling.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT this week launched its new Synthetic Health Data Challenge – offering researchers a chance to explore new avenues of medical research.
WHY IT MATTERS
The new challenge is part of ONC’s Synthetic Health Data Generation to Accelerate Patient-Centered Outcomes Research project.
Participants are invited to develop and test innovative new tools and approaches to build on the capabilities of Synthea, an open-source synthetic patient generator that models the medical histories of synthetic patients.
The goal is to advance research and development and to validate the realism of synthetic health records generated by...
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