synthetichealth/synthea
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Synthetic Patient Population Simulator observed · 2026-09-30
Health v2 · maintenance only
84/100
- Activity 90
- Release rhythm 67
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 142.5
- age_days: 3777
- days_rel: 63
- days_push: 63
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
3366 stars · 945 forks observed · 2026-09-30
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Synthea is an open-source synthetic patient population simulator that generates realistic but not real patient health records. It models patients from birth to death using modular disease rules and exports data in FHIR, C-CDA, CSV, and other formats.
Use cases
- generate synthetic patient records for health IT testing
- create FHIR test data for a healthcare application
- simulate disease progression in a synthetic population
- produce privacy-free health datasets for academic research
- generate CSV patient data for analytics pipelines
- test clinical decision support systems with realistic data
When to choose
- you need realistic synthetic health records without privacy restrictions
- you want FHIR R4/STU3/DSTU2 or C-CDA test data
- you are researching population health or policy with simulated patients
When to avoid
- you need real patient data or clinical-grade accuracy
- you are not working in the healthcare domain
- you need a GUI-based data generation tool
Facets
application · maturity active
simulation data-generation developer-tools healthcare data-science simulation jvm cli cross-platform synthetic-data fhir health-it patient-simulation hl7
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea · fetched 2026-09-30 · bb9a66c573dd
- homepage: https://synthetichealth.github.io/synthea · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5a0075cba446
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| synthetichealth/synthea | main | 84 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="synthetichealth/synthea")
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