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Welcome to the Synthea Wiki!

For a quick start, see the README and Getting Started.

Mission Statement

Synthea is a synthetic patient generator that models the medical history of synthetic patients. Our mission is to output high-quality synthetic, realistic but not real, patient data and associated health records covering every aspect of healthcare. The resulting data is free from cost, privacy, and security restrictions. It can be used without restriction for a variety of secondary uses in academia, research, industry, and government (although a citation would be appreciated).

You can read our first academic paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocx079

Contributing

We are actively looking for project contributors and maintainers!

If you are new to open source, please check out github's guide to contributing, otherwise please start contributing by:

• Reviewing Modules
• Answering Questions
• Contributing disease modules; we prefer that new contributions come in the form of generic modules
• Creating Issues
• Forking our repos and issuing pull requests
• Picking up issues or items from our Project Board
• Editing our Wiki

Currently Supported Diseases

Top 10 Reasons Patients Visit PCP	Top 10 Years of Life Lost
Routine infant/child health check	Ischemic Heart Disease
Essential Hypertension	Lung Cancer
Diabetes Mellitus	Alzheimer’s Disease
Normal Pregnancy	COPD
Respiratory Infections (Pharyngitis, Bronchitis, Sinusitis)	Cerebrovascular Disease
General Adult Medical Examination	Road Injuries
Disorders of Lipoid Metabolism	Self-Harm
Ear Infections (Otitis Media)	Diabetes Mellitus
Asthma	Colorectal Cancer
Urinary Tract Infections	Drug Use Disorders (limited to Opioids)