Latica

Latica is a healthcare data company founded in 2019 that operates a secure, anonymized real-world healthcare data platform. The company connects healthcare providers with life science and MedTech researchers, giving the latter access to patient data in a form that has been de-identified for research use. Its stated aim is to create a data ecosystem that links healthcare data with the organisations advancing medicine.

The company's principal product, the Latica Platform (previously Lynx.MD), provides scalable access to anonymized, unstructured patient imaging and video data alongside complete structured data. The platform covers more than 250 million patient encounters across 40 million patients, including 29 million clinical notes and 45 million lab records. Applications include data collaboration, the identification of gaps in care, and the acceleration of research; healthcare providers may also derive revenue from the data they contribute. The platform serves institutions worldwide, with clinical use spanning dermatology, gastroenterology and ENT among other fields.

Latica works across artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, data analytics, data anonymization and de-identification, cybersecurity and healthcare data engineering. The company was founded by data scientists, cybersecurity experts and healthcare professionals, and describes its working culture as cross-functional, with engineers, data scientists and clinicians collaborating on turning real-world data into shared insight for patient care.