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Patient
FHIR Patient resource
Patient is the FHIR resource that holds who a person is: identifiers, names, birth date, administrative gender, contact details and links to related records.
Almost every other clinical resource points to a Patient, and demographic data in it is what patient-matching algorithms compare.
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