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  ### Created by: Uri Kartoun, PhD, Copyright 2014 (https://urikartoun.com/). ###
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- **The Problem**
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- It is difficult and expensive to access Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) due to privacy concerns and technical problems.
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- I am a student or a researcher working at a university that does not have yet an access to EMR system and I am interested in evaluating machine learning algorithms.
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- Tedious bureaucracy.
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- I am teaching a computer science course and I wish to let my 150 students to experiment with electronic medical records.
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- Not possible due to privacy issues.
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- I am in a process of founding a company focused on developing a new EMR management platform and I want to demonstrate to a venture capital company and to potential customers the ability of my product to handle big data.
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- Current simulated medical databases are limited and are hard to configure.
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- **The Solution**
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- A database of artificial patients.
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- The data is generated according to pre-defined criteria and is not based on any human data.
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- The database contains the same characteristics that exist in a real medical database such as patients admission details, demographics, socioeconomic details, labs, medications, etc.
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- The database is customizable. For example, it is possible to generate a population of 100,000 patients of which 60% are male, 40% are African American, 15% are diabetic, specific lab range distributions can be set, etc.
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- The number of records can range from several thousands to millions, depending on the desired configuration.
 
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  ### Created by: Uri Kartoun, PhD, Copyright 2014 (https://urikartoun.com/). ###
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+ **The Problem:** It is difficult and expensive to access Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) due to privacy concerns and technical problems. I am a student or a researcher working at a university that does not have yet an access to EMR system and I am interested in evaluating machine learning algorithms. Tedious bureaucracy. I am teaching a computer science course and I wish to let my 150 students to experiment with electronic medical records. Not possible due to privacy issues. I am in a process of founding a company focused on developing a new EMR management platform and I want to demonstrate to a venture capital company and to potential customers the ability of my product to handle big data. Current simulated medical databases are limited and are hard to configure.
 
 
 
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+ **The Solution:** A database of artificial patients. The data is generated according to pre-defined criteria and is not based on any human data. The database contains the same characteristics that exist in a real medical database such as patients admission details, demographics, socioeconomic details, labs, medications, etc. The database is customizable. For example, it is possible to generate a population of 100,000 patients of which 60% are male, 40% are African American, 15% are diabetic, specific lab range distributions can be set, etc. The number of records can range from several thousands to millions, depending on the desired configuration.