Generating Synthetic Data for Patients Across the USA

[samkumar]

Currently, I can see how to use Synthea to generate data for patients from a particular US state.

It would be great if there was a way to generate a dataset for the entire USA.

As described in #1189, it is possible to get this behavior by writing a script that generates data for each state, and then combines the datasets. While conceptually simple, I'm unsure about the best way to work with the CSV format in such a setup. Is it fine to just concatenate the CSV files across the 50 states? Or would I first need to generate the full dataset of JSON EHRs, and then generate CSVs from the result.

I'm wondering if any cross-state interactions (e.g., a patient at the edge of one state visiting a provider in a neighboring state) that would included in one method versus the other.