Generating Synthetic Patient Data

A quick look at using Synthea

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Using healthcare data for research can be tricky, and there can be many legal and financial hoops to jump through in order to use certain data. This is especially true when dealing with the information of specific patients. But, these hurdles can be avoided with synthetic data created using Synthea, an open-source patient generator. Synthea creates…