How to create complete patient health records as FHIR resources with synthea synthea and how to upload them to a FHIR server
- Clone the synthea repository to any location
- For FHIR purposes it is necessary to change certain configuration attributes. Follow these instructions on this website. There are also more information about how FHIR needs to be treated.
- Create the necessary FHIR resources via the terminal command (you need to be in the cloned repo):
./run_synthea -p 100(This creates 100 patients with random health records) - Add FHIR folder to upload_fhir_resources-script
- Copy the absolute path of the synthea/output/fhir-folder
- Add the path to the path_to_fhir_resources variable
- Add the server-credentials (server_address,username,password)
- If some error occurs, the count/position-value is always printed out of the last uploaded transaction bundle. With the start_pos attribute you can define the starting file, so you can skip already uploaded bundles and start over with a different fhir bundle defined with the file position inside the folder.
- Run the upload_fhir_resources-script