New methods, such as synthetic data generation, have the potential to unlock the historically siloed and difficult-to-access data sets, and provide a channel for readily available access in a secure and reliable manner. Synthetic data is not considered to be personal information because there is no one-to-one mapping between the synthetic records and real people.

Recently, Heath city and his collaborators have synthesized a complex longitudinal health system dataset and evaluated its utility in a typical series of epidemiological analyses.

Guest speaker : Reg Joseph, CEO of Health City

Une présentation de l’Institut de valorisation des données (IVADO) et de l’Institut intelligence et données (IID) de l’Université Laval. 

Reg Joseph was appointed as the CEO of Health City in February 2018. He has 20 years’ experience spanning the health, technology and investment sectors. At Health City, Reg is focused on enabling platforms such as artificial intelligence & machine learning and augmented & virtual reality to drive economic growth and health impact.