POST /Patient

Introduction

This API will submit a new service request to the CIE Hub.

Authorization

The authorization will contain an API key and also will use an OAuth2 access token. An API key will be provided to each client that intends to consume this API. A development key and also a separate production key will be provided. If this key is not included then an authorization error will be returned.

The process for getting an OAuth2 token can be found here Authorization

Scope Needed For This API

CIE Michigan Hub - cie.hub/fhir

Rest URL

The following are the URLs for this API. Please note that base url for the region you are looking for can be found here Community Information Exchange Hub Region URL

Environment	URL

Environment	URL
Development	POST https://fhir-dev.{cie-region}.org/Patient

Headers

The following will be headers that will need to be supplied

Header	Description

Header	Description
x-api-key	This will be a key that will provided by a community information exchange administrator.
ContentType	application/json
Authorization	This will be the access token that was retrieved using your client id and secret

Request

Note that the person ID passed as a parameter in the URL as documented in the REST URL section.

Data Element	Description	Required

Data Element

Description

Required

Body

FHIR Patient Request Object

Service Request Object. The fhir documentation can be found here https://hl7.org/fhir/us/sdoh-clinicalcare/2022jan/StructureDefinition-SDOHCC-ServiceRequest.html

X

Response

The following will be the response values from the calling of the API. Please note that all responses will also include a instance value which will uniquely identify the specific request that was made. This ensures uniqueness even if the patient was referred to the CIE multiple times.

HTTP Status Code	Description

HTTP Status Code

Description

201

Successful creation of a Patient.

403

Request is unauthorized and will not be processed. This will happen if the authorization header does not contain a valid client id and secret.

400

Request is malformed and will not be processed.

Example CURL for this API Call

The following is an example CURL for calling this api. Also note that there are sample Referral Id’s that are in the CIE Hub development environment that can be used for testing purposes

curl -v 
--request POST 'https://fhir.mi-cie.org/fhirR4/Patient/' 
--header 'x-api-key: aGZoczo4****2ZDk=' 
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' 
--header 'Authorization: bearer etty****iquerui'
-- data @PATIENT.JSON