Synthetic Data in Healthcare: the Great Data Unlock
Workweek November 2, 2023
A while back I wrote a deep dive on synthetic data in healthcare, which holds a ton of potential to unlock data access while solving the data privacy problem in healthcare.
I’d love to hear your thoughts and opinions about this space, and about what trends in healthcare data I need to be paying attention to.
Let’s dive in!
An Introduction to Synthetic Data
Imagine a computer ‘teaching’ self driving car software how to drive.
By creating arenas like dense, urban environments with lots of turns, curbs (RIP my old Mazda CX-9) and cars, the software can be ‘taught’ without ever actually leaving a laboratory setting. At this point, over 10 billion simulated/synthetic miles have been driven!
Flight simulators are...