synthetichealth/synthea

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

3313 stars · 930 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

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