Latica

Latica is a healthcare data company that operates a secure data ecosystem linking healthcare providers' real-world patient data with life science and MedTech researchers. Founded in 2019 and previously known as Lynx.MD, the company maintains a platform providing scalable access to anonymized, unstructured patient imaging and video data alongside complete structured clinical data. The underlying dataset covers more than 250 million patient encounters, 40 million patients, 29 million clinical notes and 45 million lab records.

Work at the company spans artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and data analytics, applied to de-identification, medical imaging and video data, and healthcare data platform infrastructure. Cybersecurity and data privacy underpin the ecosystem, which is designed for collaboration between providers and researchers, gap-in-care identification and research acceleration. Dermatology, gastroenterology and ENT are among the clinical areas covered.

Latica works with healthcare institutions worldwide and is organised around multidisciplinary teams in which engineers, data scientists and clinicians collaborate. The company was founded by data scientists, cybersecurity experts and healthcare professionals, and frames its work around advancing medicine and patient care.