Adding Appointement resource

[MariemBouzaien]

Hi
I need to add the Appointment resource in the output file
Can you please help me?

[jawalonoski]

@MariemBouzaien Synthea does not currently simulate the appointment scheduling process. You can substitute Encounter data for appointments. See #852.

[MariemBouzaien]

@jawalonoski thank you, but it's the same for Questionnaire, QuestionnaireResponse? What can I do about it?

[jawalonoski]

@MariemBouzaien Good question. Right now, we have two options to implement a "questionnaire."

In the HARK questionnaire, we implemented the response as a DiagnosticReport. See https://synthetichealth.github.io/module-builder/#encounter/hark_screening

In the PRAPARE questionnaire, we implemented the response as MultiObservation (which is equivalent to an Observation with component observations). See https://synthetichealth.github.io/module-builder/#encounter/sdoh_hrsn

There is no grand logic about why we used a DiagnosticReport or a MultiObservation.

In either case, until we make Questionnaire a first-class object in Synthea, you'd have to post process the data and convert the data into QuestionnaireResponse.

[MariemBouzaien]

@jawalonoski Thank you for your help
but I need you for another thing,
how can I change the way of generation of patient id? I want whatever to be incremented automatically

[jawalonoski]

The patient ID is hard-coded as UUIDs.

If you want to change them, you need to alter this code:

synthea/src/main/java/org/mitre/synthea/modules/LifecycleModule.java

Lines 119 to 122 in f1b56e2

	public static void birth(Person person, long time) {
	Map<String, Object> attributes = person.attributes;
	attributes.put(Person.ID, person.randUUID().toString());

[tomkaith13]

fyi.. for anyone looking on how to get Synthea to generate Appointments using Encounter data, here is an example:
#1362