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Quick InsightSynthetic data is becoming a powerful tool in diagnostic AI. It can expand training sets, simulate rare conditions, and let hospitals collaborate without moving sensitive records. But synthetic data is not a replacement for reality. It is a scale tool, not a truth source. Diagnostic AI still depends on

Quick InsightHospitals want to collaborate on diagnostic AI because bigger, more diverse datasets usually create safer models. But patient data cannot simply move between institutions. The emerging solution is a “data firewall” approach: hospitals keep real patient records local, generate privacy-safe synthetic corpora inside their own walls, and share those

Quick InsightHospitals are entering a new ethical era in AI. For decades, the core question was: “Can we collect and use patient data safely, with consent and de-identification?” Synthetic diagnostic data changes that framing. When hospitals generate artificial-but-realistic patient records or images, the ethical center of gravity moves from “safe