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Synthetic data

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Synthetic health data is artificially generated data that mimics the statistics and structure of real records without describing any real person.

It is used for testing, demos and training environments (Synthea generates FHIR patients) and for some model development, but it cannot replace real data for validation.

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Synthea synthetic patient generator

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