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Topic: VA run_synthia data

view this post on Zulip Byron Bunton (Jul 28 2021 at 19:17):

Is there a way to capture VA data only in Synthea for Cheyenne Wyoming?

view this post on Zulip Byron Bunton (Jul 28 2021 at 19:22):

I thought by adding the generate.veteran_population_override = true setting to the synthea.properties file I would get a high prevelance of of VA data... not seeing any data related to VA Hospitals. Anyone know how we can get VA Hospital data alone?

view this post on Zulip Yunwei Wang (Jul 28 2021 at 20:37):

@Jason Walonoski

view this post on Zulip Byron Bunton (Jul 30 2021 at 12:59):

He is a busy man

view this post on Zulip Byron Bunton (Jul 30 2021 at 13:05):

I am currently using Synthea to generate data relevant to veterans and Department of Veteran Affairs medical facilities. I am looking for guidance on my best options to have Synthea predominantly use facilities listed in the providers/va_facilities.csv. At this point of time, I am not able to see a va facility in any of my output files. This includes the individual patient files (“location” and “serviceProvider”) and hospitalInformation.json file.

I have set the generate.veteran_population_override = true in the synthea.properties file and specifying a state city that has facilities in the va_facilities.csv.

I have tried custom modules I have created and most of the built in veteran ones and seeing the same behavior.

Any guidance or recommendations would be appreciated

view this post on Zulip Byron Bunton (Jul 30 2021 at 13:06):

@Jason Walonoski

view this post on Zulip Byron Bunton (Jul 30 2021 at 13:48):

@Shashwat Gulyani

view this post on Zulip Jason Walonoski (Jul 30 2021 at 16:07):

@Byron Bunton

Try running the following command:

./run_synthea -p 1000 --generate.veteran_population_override=true --exporter.years_of_history=0 --exporter.csv.export=true --exporter.fhir.export=false Wyoming Cheyenne

Look in the organizations.csv file and sort it by UTILIZATION.

In my run, the top three results are:

NAME                              UTILIZATION
Cheyenne VA Medical               82484
Cheyenne Vet Center               41481
CHEYENNE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER  35028

That is a LOT of encounters at the VA Medical Center and Vet Center.

view this post on Zulip Jason Walonoski (Jul 30 2021 at 16:12):

Here is an explanation of the parameters I used:

  • ./run_synthea: the Synthea command
  • -p 1000: generate 1000 patients
  • --generate.veteran_population_override=true: force all adult patients to be military veterans.
  • --exporter.years_of_history=0: A zero here, somewhat unintuitively, means "do not filter history".
  • --exporter.csv.export=true: turn on the CSV file output for easier data analysis
  • --exporter.fhir.export=false: turn off FHIR output, just because I don't need it in this example, but you probably don't want to use... given you are on chat.fhir.org, you probably want FHIR.
  • Wyoming Cheyenne: specifies use of Cheyenne, Wyoming demographics, geography, and facility information.

Hope that helps.

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