Synthea: An approach, method, and software mechanism for generating synthetic patients and the synthetic electronic health care record

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Synthea: An approach, method, and software mechanism for generating synthetic patients and the synthetic electronic health care record

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Massey University

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Massey Research Online

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Objective: Our objective is to create a source of synthetic electronic health records that is readily available; suited to industrial, innovation, research, and educational uses; and free of legal, privacy, security, and intellectual property restrictions. Materials and Methods: We developed Synthea, an open-source software package that simulates the lifespans of synthetic patients, modeling the 10 most frequent reasons for primary care encounters and the 10 chronic conditions with the highes...

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Research paper

Research format

Journal article

Date created

30 August 2017

Creator

Walonoski J / Kramer M / Nichols J / Quina A / Moesel / Hall D / Duffett C / Dube K / Gallagher T / McLachlan S

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10179/11810

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electronic health records / computer simulation / patient-specific modeling / clinical pathways / RS-EHR / 08 Information and Computing Sciences / 09 Engineering / 11 Medical and Health Sciences

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