Demo Data Question

[Jason Boccuti]

Hello,

I'm working with a team developing a module and we're interested in the practicality of the demo data.  Our biggest question is how representative the demo data is of an actual instance of OpenMRS.  When looking through the database at the demo data, there appears to be many columns that are just populated with null and are never actually used.  One example of this is the death_date column in the person table.  

In regards to death, does a patient stay in the system even after they die and they to be manually removed.  Or, does the system remove them after some time period past their death.

Along the same lines, we're curious as to whether relationships are used between individuals commonly in a real instance of OpenMRS.  

We have noticed that the demo data has some inconsistencies, such as pregnant men, and we're wondering how the demo data was actually created - whether it was randomly generated or some other method.

I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this question as it relies on real OpenMRS data, but hopefully someone here may be able to push this question in the right direction.  Or potentially know of a way we may be able to get better demo data that is more representative of a real instance of OpenMRS.

Thanks,

Jason

[Darius Jazayeri]

Hi Jason,

The demo data was originally pulled from real data, and then heavily deidentified, including having the names, ages, and genders scrambled, and all free-text data removed. This was done years ago (2006?) and the only updates since then have been to update to the latest data model. So, it's not really representative of the depth or breadth of what you can find in a real-world implementation.

I don't have any helpful advice about how you can find realistic data to use, because implementations are generally not interested in the work or risk involved in sharing that kind of demo data...

-Darius

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[Jason Boccuti]

Darius,

Thank you for the explanation on how the demo data was created - it does clarify some of the inconsistencies that we observed.  We will look into possibly generating some of our own demo data to test the data that we need.

Thanks,

Jason