How can synthea generate shorter data? The current data is too long to import into the database.

[QzZhang3]

How can synthea generate shorter data? The current data is too long to import into the database.

[jawalonoski]

By default Synthea exports the last 10 years of data for each patient.

You can change this on the command line or in the synthea.properties file:

Command line example for 1 year of history:

./run_synthea --exporter.years_of_history=1

See:

synthea/src/main/resources/synthea.properties

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	# number of years of history to keep in exported records, anything older than this may be filtered out
	# set years_of_history = 0 to skip filtering altogether and keep the entire history
	exporter.years_of_history = 10