Epic recommends date sliding your master patients into the future by how many years or days?

• A. 3 years or 1095 days
• B. 8 years or 2922 days
• C. 5 years or 1825 days
• D. 10 years or 3650 days

Answer: (B)

Date shifting in Epic training data is used to protect privacy while keeping the timelines of patient events realistic for learners. By moving master patient dates forward by eight years, ages remain plausible and encounter sequences still line up in a believable way for teaching scenarios. Eight years translates to about 2922 days, accounting for leap years so the shift matches real calendar time.

Eight years is long enough to avoid exposing real patient timelines and to maintain sensible age progressions and scheduling logic in training data, without pushing everything too far into the future and making timelines feel unrealistic. Shorter shifts (three or five years) can compress ages and timing too much, while a ten-year shift can overly detach events from plausible current-era contexts.