Is it possible to generate data for multiple states at once?

[fabkury]

I wanted to make a nationwide (USA) dataset. I know I could run Synthea once per state, but the IDs (e.g. patient ID) would collide (coincide).

Is there a way to obtain a multi-state dataset, without having to address ID collisions post-hoc?

[jawalonoski]

Use a different seed and clinician seed (using -s and -cs in the command line parameters) when you run each state.

Given that each ID is a UUID, they are extremely unlikely to conflict. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

[jawalonoski]

In the cases where they do conflict (for example, Organizations) it is because they are designed to conflict. In other words, if two Organizations have the same ID, they are the same organization.

[fabkury]

Thanks so much for the quick response and the explanations. I confess I didn't know they were UUIDs. I had imagined autoincrement IDs, because I am looking at the data through the result of https://github.com/OHDSI/ETL-Synthea, not the CSVs produced by Synthea itself. I apologize for the confusion.