Secure Health Data Storage Article - Create Patient Snippet

secure-data-create-patient.ts

const createPatient = async (accountId: string, projectId: string) => {
  const patient = await fetch(`https://fhir.us.lifeomic.com/${accountId}/dstu3/Patient`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.PHC_API_KEY}`,
      'content-type': 'application/json'
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      resourceType: "Patient",
      
      // Fill in the details of your patient
      name: [
        {
          use: "official",
          family: "Lavin",
          given: ["Matt"]
        }
      ],
      gender: "male",
      
      // Add a `meta` tag to the resource so that the PHC knows what project to put the patient in.
      meta: {
        tag: [
          {
            system: 'http://lifeomic.com/fhir/dataset',
            code: projectId
          }
        ]
      }
    })
  })

  // The result from the POST is a copy of the body from above
  // and also includes a new `id` attribute.
  //    {
  //      "id": <newid>
  //      "resourceType": "Patient",
  //      ...rest
  //    }
  return patient.json();
}