Representation of Specimen in Laboratory Tests in Modules

[paulolaup]

Hi,
I'm currently working on evaluating different FHIR servers regarding their suitability for feasibility query answering and I'm planing to use Synthea to generate a sufficiently large test data set on which to run these queries.

I want to base the test queries on inclusion and exclusion criteria of real studies, which sometimes (especially in oncology) link the presence of a condition to test performed on some specimen.

While running Synthea, I noticed the lack of such resource instance data.

Are there ways to represent such data in Synthea or can one extract it from the generated data?

[jawalonoski]

If you don't see, it probably isn't there.

You can double-check what might appear in the records, by browsing the module builder: https://synthetichealth.github.io/module-builder/

For example, if you are looking at breast cancer, you'd select the breast cancer module: https://synthetichealth.github.io/module-builder/#breast_cancer

Please be aware that there are submodules which might contain additional clinical content (basically these submodules are like functions or subroutines), which you can find by clicking on "Open Module" > "Submodules" > [Submodule]

You can add missing diagnostic tests using the point-and-click interface and adding the appropriate terminology code, downloading the module with your changes (JSON file), and using that module in Synthea. See https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/Generic-Module-Framework%3A-Running-New-Modules