Private Health Journal

Glossary · Data and interoperability

Synthetic Health Data

Synthetic Health Data

Emerging

Artificially generated records that reproduce the statistical structure of real health data without corresponding to real people.

Useful for development and testing; it does not by itself remove privacy risk, since generators can memorise their training set.

Context

RelatedDe-identification, Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Sourcenpj Digital Medicine, evaluations of synthetic health data — verification required