University of Alberta: Even better than the real thing: Simulated, anonymized data could be key to health-care innovations

 A University of Alberta researcher is developing an inventive solution to a problem plaguing health-care research around the world: how to make data-driven decisions without compromising the privacy of personal medical records. Dean Eurich, professor in the School of Public Health, is academic lead on a project that has successfully created a “synthetic data” set that mirrors Albertans’ use of the health-care system without breaching their privacy.“ In Alberta we have some …

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2021-09-15 11:54:48