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title: "Creating FHIR Patients"
canonical: "https://wiki.patientsknowbest.com/space/api/4644175880/Creating%20FHIR%20Patients"
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> # How
> 
> [Patient resource requirements](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/api/pages/5001838634)
> 
> 1. When you send the [patient resource](https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/patient.html), you will need to send in two identifiers:
>   1. The **[logical id](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/api/pages/5003673621)** that you assign
>   2. The patient’s **business identifier **(e.g. NHS number)
> 2. Assign the patient a logical id so that it can be referenced in other resources.
> 3. The logical id of an organization that already exists in the upstream data store must be referenced as the Patient.managingOrganization element.
> 4. At a minimum, include first name, last name, dob, gender along with the identifier.
> 5. POST https://<client><u>.fhir-api.sandbox.patientsknowbest.com/fhir/Patient</u>

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> Very basic Patient resource example:
> 
> ```
> {
>   "resourceType": "Patient",
>   "id": "<Client assigned patient logical id>",
>   "identifier": [
>     {
>       "system": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number",
>       "value": "9571270652"
>     }
>   ],
>   "name": [
>     {
>       "family": "Lyons",
>       "given": [
>         "Iris"
>       ],
>       "prefix": [
>         "Ms."
>       ]
>     }
>   ],
>   "telecom": [
>     {
>       "system": "phone",
>       "value": "07787893978"
>     }
>   ],
>   "gender": "female",
>   "birthDate": "1957-04-21",
>   "address": [
>     {
>       "line": [
>         "724 Joceko Road"
>       ],
>       "city": "Tuses",
>       "state": "Carihofox",
>       "postalCode": "FJ113FZ",
>       "country": "GBR"
>     }
>   ],
>   "managingOrganization": {
>     "reference": "Organization/<client assigned organization logical id>"
>   }
> }
> ```