Generative AI agents take on the challenge of protecting patient privacy
Published on: Sept. 18, 2025, 11:31 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
Electronic health records (EHRs) are invaluable for medical research, but their use is hampered by strict privacy requirements. Traditional pseudonymization protects patients but still leaves traces that can be re-identified. Van Velzen and colleagues argue that fully synthetic text, created by large language models (LLMs) under controlled conditions, provides a stronger safeguard.
