SYNDERAI – Synthetic Data for the European Health Data Space
An HL7 Europe webinar on Thursday, 16 July 2026
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Digital health technologies need data, and lots of it: to move from idea to innovation, for development, training, testing and validation. Data must meet quality criteria, be realistic and comprehensive, yet it cannot violate the privacy of patients and real people. The revolution of AI-powered technologies and the transformative push of the EHDS will dramatically increase the hunger for data. A possible answer: synthetic data that is plausible, amalgamated from several sources and generated at scale, with judicious use of AI but curated by humans.
This webinar introduced the audience to the SYNDERAI (“Synthetic Data Examples – Realistic – using AI”), a set of data examples for testing and validation, for use in education and implementation support for vendors. Speakers discussed how SYNDERAI came about, how you can access SYNDERAI datasets and benefit, and go over a number of practical aspects and use cases. The line-up included:
- SYNDERAI: from idea to real impact
Kai Heitmann, xShare project - Synthetic data for cancer research: the Phoenix Initiative
Thomas Debertshäuser, Charité - Demonstration of EHDS example dataset visualization
Andries Hamster, Founda Health
The webinar was facilitated by Michael Strübin from HL7 Europe.
