Synthetic data generation (SDG) is rapidly emerging as a practical privacy enhancing technology (PET) for data sharing by generating non-identifiable datasets that can be used and disclosed without the legislative need for additional consent given that these datasets would not be considered personal information.
Dr. Khaled El Emam is senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute and Director of the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory, conducting applied research on data synthesis, and the identifiability of health information and how to measure it, as well as a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He founded or co-founded several companies involved with data management and data analytics, and currently he is leading Replica-Analytics in the development of synthetic data generation technology for the healthcare and life sciences sector.