Lunch and Learn: FHIR Resources for Testing PatientGen
Dr. Jeff Eastman, Senior Directory Architect, MiHIN
Using PatientGen FHIR Resources for Research and Educational Purposes
Mark Braunstein, Professor of the Practice, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Patient Gen
It is hard to create synthetic Patient data.
Purpose is to create credible test data
- Randomly assigns
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Patients can be aged and go through life changes
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130 Conditions
PatientGen can create:
– ADTs
– FHIR
– ACRS
and much more
Available to anyone
Mark Braunstein, CA Inst. of Tech.
Runs CS 6440 Introduction to Health Informatics
Nine years old.
Evolved with rapidly changing HIT landscape
Offered as part of OMSCS (On Line Masters of Science in Computer Science)
Heavily project based.
Offered as a MOOC. 10 weeks long.
Projects:
Teams of 4-6
Multi-disciplinary
Emory/VA/CDC lecture on their domains.
Students then work on real projects.
CDC – App Suite for Community-wide Obesity program (4 Projects)
GT built FHIR Server on top of OMOP
Students have access to:
- 10,000 Chronic disease patients
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