Synthetic Data and LLMs Power the World ’ s Most Powerful Research Assistant

The next public health pronouncement or clinical treatment might emerge from synthetic data: rows of totally invented people that contain no real data but reflects the actual characteristics of a population such as race, gender, and medical conditions. Synthetic data plus large language models (LLMs), which lie at the base of current generative AI, provide “the world’s most powerful research assistant” in the words of Josh Rubel, chief commercial officer for MDClone. This video contains a wide-ranging discussion between Rubel and interviewer John Lynn about the current applications and future possibilities of synthetic data, LLMs, and generative AI. MDClone offers a health data management platform to health care institutions for quality improvement, performance improvement, academic research, and third-party integration. A typical application described by Rubel is hypothesis testing. For instance, will phone calls to patient for visit reminders work better in the morning or in the afternoon? AI might choose the best chart to illustrate a concept, or even choose among available treatments. In all these cases, well-trained AI can work much faster and more cheaply than a human consultant. Research on human patients, Rubel says, usually compares them along 10 to 20 dimensions. MDClone can take a data set on real patients and generate a synthetic data set of fake people that contains no personal health information (PHI) but still reveals that limited set of dimen...
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