Synthea Docker

This repository contains a Dockerfile for running Synthea, a synthetic patient generator that models the medical history of synthetic patients.

What is Synthea?

Synthea is an open-source synthetic patient generator developed by MITRE. It creates realistic but not real patient data and associated health records covering every aspect of healthcare. The synthetic data is designed to capture the statistical and epidemiological properties of real populations while containing no actual patient information.

Usage

Building the Docker Image

docker build -t synthea .

Running Synthea

Generate synthetic patients:

docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/output:/app/output synthea

Custom Configuration

To use custom configuration files:

docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/output:/app/output -v $(pwd)/config:/app/config synthea

Output

Generated patient data will be saved to the output directory in various formats including:

• FHIR R4 JSON
• CSV files
• Clinical notes

Documentation

For more information about Synthea, visit the official documentation.