Updating records over time

Hi,

Apologies if this is the wrong place to log this. I am looking to understand if it is possible to replicate a use case I see in many health institutions. The challenge is showing data changing over time. For example patient 1 lives at address A then moves to address B. In many systems this is represented as:

ID,BIRTHDATE,DEATHDATE,SSN,DRIVERS,PASSPORT,PREFIX,FIRST,LAST,SUFFIX,MAIDEN,MARITAL,RACE,ETHNICITY,GENDER,BIRTHPLACE,ADDRESS
a216e053-3ff2-4af6-96f8-c3f12a25384a,1956-01-18,1956-02-22,999-27-5187,,,,Mohammad3,Stiedemann935,,,,white,german,F,Blackstone MA US,9984 Werner Summit Eastham MA 02642 US

When the patient moves a delta is created with the same ID but with different details, e.g.

a216e053-3ff2-4af6-96f8-c3f12a25384a,1956-01-18,1956-02-22,999-27-5187,,,,Mohammad3,Stiedemann935,,,,white,german,F,Norwood MA US,4320 Dexter Mills Eastham MA 02642 US

Is is possible to simulate this behaviour with Synthea. For example creating an inital dataset for years 0-50 and then a set of delta with updates made for some of the records over time, e.g. years 50-51, 51-52, 52-53 etc.

Any help much appreciated 😃

[AndriesSmartmed]

Currently I’m trying to generate evolving vital sign data through the Evolving Population feature at: [https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/Evolving-a-Population]

However I run into an error, how to proceed? (normal Synthea cmd run just fine) My setup:

Windows .bat file: java -jar synthea-with-dependencies.jar ./run_synthea -p 5 -u output/1/snap --exporter.baseDirectory output/1 java -jar synthea-with-dependencies.jar ./run_synthea -i output/1/snap -u output/2/snap -t 100 --exporter.baseDirectory output/2 java -jar synthea-with-dependencies.jar ./run_synthea -i output/2/snap -u output/3/snap -t 100 --exporter.baseDirectory output/3 pause

Folder structure: output/1, output/2, output/3

Error: Unable to load demographics java.lang.Exception: The city output/1/snap was not found in the demographics file. at org.mitre.synthea.world.geography.Location.<init>(Location.java:59) at org.mitre.synthea.engine.Generator.init(Generator.java:188) at org.mitre.synthea.engine.Generator.<init>(Generator.java:143) at App.main(App.java:144) Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at org.mitre.synthea.world.geography.Location.<init>(Location.java:81) at org.mitre.synthea.engine.Generator.init(Generator.java:188) at org.mitre.synthea.engine.Generator.<init>(Generator.java:143) at App.main(App.java:144) Caused by: java.lang.Exception: The city output/1/snap was not found in the demographics file. at org.mitre.synthea.world.geography.Location.<init>(Location.java:59) ... 3 more

[AndriesSmartmed]

@jawalonoski & @dehall thanks! I have downloaded and build the latest version, and have it up and running!