Synthea Downloads version statement

[eroell]

Requested Feature

Hi,
on https://synthea.mitre.org/downloads, I wondered if it was possible to specify the Synthea Version used to generate the data, e.g. write it in the header per dataset. Or is this possible right away from the context, and I'm missing something?

Best regards

[dehall]

Hi, some of the data does include version information:

• All FHIR data generated by synthea includes a version description in the Patient.text field like this:

 "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">Generated by <a href=\"https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea\">Synthea</a>.Version identifier: v2.6.1-3-g50f4f58f\n .   Person seed: -7901283747506674198  Population seed: 3</div>"
        },

That version identifier includes the release number if available and the git commit hash.

• Everything under "Latest Version of Synthea" is regenerated automatically every time a commit is made to the master branch so you can cross reference by date to tell what version it was created by.

But for the other formats and sections I see it might not be immediately apparent what version these come from. I'll see if I can find that info and add it to the page.

[eroell]

Thanks @dehall , this is exactly what I wondered!

For the Covid datasets (only csv's), I'd indeed be interested if this can be figured out... In any case thanks for your efforts!

[dehall]

The covid datasets were generated for a publication and so we generally keep a permanent version for those kinds of things. I'm not 100% sure but I expect it was generated based on the latest on the covid19 branch, from May 2020: https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/tree/covid19

Also that reminds me of another clue for trying to figure out a version: by default synthea runs with the current date as the end of simulation, so if you sort entries such as observations by date, you'll probably be able to tell when the end of the simulation was and hence when the data was generated