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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
        <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca</link>
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            <title><![CDATA[Global Privacy Assembly in Seoul]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[See recordings of Khaled El Emam&amp;#39;s presentations from the Global Privacy Assembly (GPA) in Seoul.&amp;nbsp;
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            <pubDate>2025-09-19</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Global%20Privacy%20Assembly</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Global%20Privacy%20Assembly</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Synthetic Data Summit 2025: Solving Real-World Data Challenges, Advancing Privacy, and Shaping the Future of Healthcare]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The 2025 Synthetic Data Summit, May 16, 2025 at the Centre PHI in Montreal. This year&amp;#39;s summit explores how synthetic data is being used to address real-world data challenges and privacy problems of data access and sharing, and examine its future applications in healthcare.
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            <pubDate>2025-04-30</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Summit%20Announcement</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Summit%20Announcement</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Webinar: Rescuing Low Accrual Clinical Trials with Generative Models (Recording)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[On March 19 we presented&amp;nbsp;an engaging discussion of&amp;nbsp;how generative models can be used to simulate patients in low accruing trials.
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            <pubDate>2025-03-12</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Virtual%20patients</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Virtual%20patients</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Webinar: Practical experiences with synthetic health data generation (Recording)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Khaled El Emam provides an overview of his experience with synthetic health data generation.
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            <pubDate>2025-03-10</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/QC%20Presentation</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/QC%20Presentation</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[TMC AI Summit 2025 (February 20-21, 2025)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[On February 21, Khaled El Emam will present the keynote address at the&amp;nbsp;Texas Medical Center AI Summit 2025 in&amp;nbsp;Houston, TX.
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            <pubDate>2025-01-27</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/TMC%20AI%20Summit</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/TMC%20AI%20Summit</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Presentation at PHUSE Data Transparency Winter Event (4th February 2025)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[EHIL Postdoctoral Fellow, Lisa Pilgram, will be presenting at the PHUSE Data Transparency Winter Event on February 4, 2025 on &amp;quot;Reducing Regulatory Uncertainty Around Anonymisation: Perspectives of Canadian Privacy Regulators&amp;quot;.
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            <pubDate>2025-01-24</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Phuse</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Phuse</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[IPC panel on The power of PETs: Privacy enhancing technologies (28 January 2025)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[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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            <pubDate>2025-01-24</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Data%20Privacy%20Day</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Data%20Privacy%20Day</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Webinar: How Canadian Regulators Approach De-Identification: An Interview Study (Recording)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Lisa Pilgram and Khaled El Emam share&amp;nbsp;the results of an interview study with Canadian privacy regulators to understand their perspectives on data anonymization.
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            <pubDate>2025-01-03</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/IDPL-Webinar</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/IDPL-Webinar</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Re-identification risk threshold literature review]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A literature review on precedents for the threshold for re-identification risk.
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            <pubDate>2024-12-19</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Re-identification%20risk%20threshold</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Re-identification%20risk%20threshold</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Webinar: What not to do when publishing a machine learning modeling study (Recording)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Khaled El Emam distills key learnings about publishing studies utilizing machine learning models.
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            <pubDate>2024-09-23</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/ML%20study</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/ML%20study</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Webinar: On the evaluation of synthetic data utility (Recording)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[On September 24, Dr. Fida Dankar presented her research work on synthetic data utility.
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            <pubDate>2024-08-14</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Webinar</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Webinar</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Webinar: Ethics of research involving humans in epidemiology and public health research (Recording)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[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.
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            <pubDate>2024-04-18</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/TCPS2</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/TCPS2</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Webinar: Generating and Applying Synthetic Health Data (Recording)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[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.
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            <pubDate>2024-04-17</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/HRDN</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/HRDN</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Webinar: The Utility Costs of Anonymization (Recording)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[On April 17, Lisa Pilgram presented an example application of anonymization in the field of nephrology.&amp;nbsp; The focus was on utility and attention drawn to potential pitfalls.&amp;nbsp;Video and slides available.
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            <pubDate>2024-03-25</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/The%20Utility%20Costs%20of%20Anonymization</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/The%20Utility%20Costs%20of%20Anonymization</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Webinar: Mitigating Bias in Real World Health Data (Recording)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In February 2024, Lamin Juwara joined us to discuss the results of his recently published study &amp;ldquo;An evaluation of synthetic data augmentation for mitigating covariate bias in health data&amp;rdquo; on bias mitigation techniques to correct biased datasets. Webinar video&amp;nbsp;available at:&amp;nbsp;https://vimeo.com/918399218
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            <pubDate>2024-03-01</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Bias%20Mitigation</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Bias%20Mitigation</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Release of machine learning R package (experimental)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[This is the release announcement for the sdgm R package. This is the package we use on our intro to machine learning class.
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            <pubDate>2024-01-12</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Release%20of%20sdgm</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Release%20of%20sdgm</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Code and data files for RWD bias mitigation paper by Juwara et al.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[This post includes links to the data and code files for the Juwara et al. paper code and data files.
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            <pubDate>2023-08-18</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Bias-mitigation</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Bias-mitigation</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[R files for article on VMS in breast cancer patients by Cole et al.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[R files for paper by Cole et al. on change scores for VMS in breast cancer patients.
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            <pubDate>2023-08-04</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/R%20Files</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/R%20Files</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Minor correction to recently published Scientific Reports paper]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[This blog makes a minor&amp;nbsp;correction to one of the tables in the paper recently published in Scientific Reports:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-38457-3
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            <pubDate>2023-08-02</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Correction%20to%20Scientific%20Reports%20paper</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Correction%20to%20Scientific%20Reports%20paper</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Synthetic Data Use: Exploring use cases to optimize data utility  (Recording)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[On March 9, Stef James, Senior Director, Capability and Operations at AstraZeneca UK, joined EHIL to present her study&amp;nbsp;of use cases for synthetic data within the pharmaceutical industry.
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            <pubDate>2023-03-10</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/March%20Webinar</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/March%20Webinar</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Enabling Data Access with Synthetic Data]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail recently published the article, &amp;ldquo;Synthetic data puts privacy at the heart of AI projects&amp;rdquo; that features an interview with Dr. Khaled El Emam, head of the Electronic Health Information Laboratory.
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            <pubDate>2023-03-03</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Global%20and%20Mail%20feature</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Global%20and%20Mail%20feature</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Could Privacy Law Reforms Accelerate Medical AI Innovations?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[To address the lagging commercialization of AI research in Canada, privacy laws must enable responsible access to data.
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            <pubDate>2022-05-20</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Privacy%20Laws%20and%20Medical%20AI%20Innovation</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/Privacy%20Laws%20and%20Medical%20AI%20Innovation</guid>
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            <title><![CDATA[Opening statement before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[This is the opening statement for Khaled El Emam&amp;#39;s appearance at the hearing on 7th February 2022.
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            <pubDate>2022-02-07</pubDate>
            <link>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/ETHI%20Statement</link>
            <guid>https://ehealthinformation.ca/blog/EHIL%20Blog/ETHI%20Statement</guid>
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