Protecting Health Information. Ensuring Data Integrity.
Protecting Health Information. Ensuring Data Integrity.
EHIL Blog and Announcements
Webinar Recording: Practical experiences with synthetic health data generation
Dr. Khaled El Emam provides an overview of his experience with synthetic health data generation.
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Webinar: Rescuing Low Accrual Clinical Trials with Generative Models
Join us on March 19, for an engaging discussion of how generative models can be used to simulate patients in low accruing trials.
TMC AI Summit 2025 (February 20-21, 2025)
On February 21, Khaled El Emam will present the keynote address at the Texas Medical Center AI Summit 2025 in Houston, TX.
Presentation at PHUSE Data Transparency Winter Event (4th February 2025)
EHIL Postdoctoral Fellow, Lisa Pilgram, will be presenting at the PHUSE Data Transparency Winter Event on February 4, 2025 on "Reducing Regulatory Uncertainty Around Anonymisation: Perspectives of Canadian Privacy Regulators".
IPC panel on The power of PETs: Privacy enhancing technologies (28 January 2025)
On January 28, join Khaled El Emam and an esteemed panel of experts to hear how PETs can be used in practice to support innovation while also protecting privacy.
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Webinar: How Canadian Regulators Approach De-Identification: An Interview Study
Lisa Pilgram and Khaled El Emam share the results of an interview study with Canadian privacy regulators to understand their perspectives on data anonymization.
Re-identification risk threshold literature review
A literature review on precedents for the threshold for re-identification risk.
Webinar: What not to do when publishing a machine learning modeling study
Dr. Khaled El Emam distills key learnings about publishing studies utilizing machine learning models.
Webinar: On the evaluation of synthetic data utility
On September 24, Dr. Fida Dankar presented her research work on synthetic data utility.
Webinar: Ethics of research involving humans in epidemiology and public health research
Do you conduct research involving human participants? Are you subject to the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS)? In this webinar, Hanan Abdel-Akher, Senior Policy Analyst with the Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research, answers these questions and more.
Webinar: Generating and Applying Synthetic Health Data
Synthetic data generation is an emerging approach for responsibly sharing data. Dr. Khaled El Emam reviews the use of generative models to produce synthetic real-world data and clinical trial data, along with studies evaluating the replicability of analyses using synthetic data and the privacy risks of synthetic data will. He also discusses further applications for enabling federated analysis and (selection) bias mitigation.