Replica Analytics, an Aetion firm and a Canadian technology supplier, has joined forces with Innovate Cities.

The leading provider of technology-based Synthetic Data Generation (SDG) technologies to the healthcare sector is Replica Analytics. It creates software for creating synthetic data while safeguarding the privacy of data subjects and maintaining the statistical features of real data. Through this collaboration, Replica’s SDG technologies will be made available to Innovate Cities for use in CityShield, Innovate Cities’ Data Trust that is intended for secure data exchange. Any individually identifiable information will be converted into synthetic, privacy-preserving, non-identified copies by Replica so that it can be shared while maintaining privacy. Replica Analytics’ dedication to data privacy and the use of de-identified data for the greater benefit is shared by Innovate Cities.
Synthetic data generation is a potent technology that is quickly gaining adoption to help solve this problem, according to Dr. Khaled El Emam, SVP and GM of Replica Analytics. “Organizations need to leverage data to innovate, but they face many challenges obtaining access to realistic datasets while at the same time preserving privacy in a manner consistent with contemporary regulations,” he says.

Source: Prnewswire