[dirheist]

There should be a standardization committee tasked with standardizing the collection of anonymized, semi-synthetic medical data from hospitals/hospital networks. It seems like so much research is just locked up in the IMS systems the hospitals use for their patients and that never see the light of day.

[potatoman22]

I read about this researcher using GANs to create synthetic patient data, cool stuff. She had a problem she couldn't solve though: how do you validate that your synthetic patients look real?

[dekhn]

You cannot imagine just how deep the medical data rabbit hole goes.

Already plenty of institutions have semi-standardized their collect and do multi-hospital (typically research hospitals) aggregation. Whether this data is any good as training data for supervised or unsupervised algorithms is really questionable.