Episode 320

Unlocking Healthcare's Data Goldmine with Synthetic Data with Daniel Blumenthal

Published on: 25th August, 2025

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Episode Overview:

Healthcare organizations are drowning in data, yet struggling to unlock its potential to improve patient outcomes. 

Our next guest, Daniel Blumenthal, is transforming this challenge as VP of Strategy at MDClone. With nearly a decade pioneering synthetic data solutions, Daniel possesses a unique perspective bridging healthcare innovation and data privacy protection. 

From launching MDClone's North American operations to establishing partnerships with leading health systems like Intermountain Healthcare, he's witnessed firsthand how synthetic data can democratize healthcare insights while safeguarding patient privacy. 

Driven by a passion to turn data into actionable intelligence, Daniel shares MDClone's revolutionary vision to enable safe, collaborative discovery across healthcare ecosystems worldwide. 

Join us to discover how synthetic data is breaking down barriers, accelerating research, and empowering healthcare professionals to ask better questions of their data. Let's go!

Episode Highlights:

  • Building Trust in Healthcare Innovation: Healthcare innovations "live or die" based on whether people trust them, making trust-building as crucial as technology development.
  • Synthetic Data Solves Privacy Challenge: MDClone generates "fake" patient data that protects privacy while maintaining statistical utility for research and analysis.
  • $7 Million Savings at Intermountain: Synthetic data analysis of 100,000+ kidney disease patients helped optimize care interventions and deliver measurable ROI.
  • AI Needs Patient Data Access: Generative AI could automate clinical processes, but requires patient data for training- making synthetic data essential for healthcare AI.
  • Democratizing Healthcare Data: MDClone enables physicians, researchers, and administrators to access robust patient datasets previously blocked by privacy barriers.

About our Guest: 

Daniel joined MDClone in its early days, launching the company’s operations in North America and establishing its first partnerships with healthcare organizations in the U.S. and Canada. With MDClone’s growth, Daniel now leads efforts to expand key partnerships and develop new software, services, and collaborations around the globe. Based in Chicago, Daniel has extensive experience building startup ecosystems and supporting entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Israel, having served as Deputy Consul for Economic Affairs at the Government of Israel Economic Mission in Chicago.

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