How to Access Synthetic Data in the VA

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Department of Veterans Affairs .   How to Access Synthetic Data in the VA. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-04-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/E247495V1

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Project Title:  View help for Project Title How to Access Synthetic Data in the VA
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“Emerging opportunities from this wealth of digital data come at the steep cost of individual privacy. With the breadth of data sharing amongst consumers, data brokers, technological platforms, etc., the risk to patient privacy has increased.
Synthetic data is data that mimics realistic patterns but does not correspond to real data records. If data can be generated that reflects the patterns in clinical EHR data without any identifiable correlation to the actual data records used in their generation, this would have significant benefits for data privacy in the research and clinical contexts.”
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://www.data.va.gov/stories/s/rssm-v4rt

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Synthetic Data; VHA Synthetic Data; Veterans; Veterans Affairs; social determinants of health; SdoH; ARCHES VAIU
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
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