Get access token for Azure API for FHIR using Azure CLI

In this article, you'll learn how to obtain an access token for the Azure API for FHIR using the Azure CLI. When you provision the Azure API for FHIR, you configure a set of users or service principals that have access to the service. If your user object ID is in the list of allowed object IDs, you can access the service using a token obtained using the Azure CLI.

Prerequisites

Obtain a token

The Azure API for FHIR uses a resource or Audience with URI equal to the URI of the FHIR server https://<FHIR ACCOUNT NAME>.azurehealthcareapis.com. You can obtain a token and store it in a variable (named $token) with the following command:

$token=$(az account get-access-token --resource=https://<FHIR ACCOUNT NAME>.azurehealthcareapis.com --query accessToken --output tsv)

Use with Azure API for FHIR

curl -X GET --header "Authorization: Bearer $token" https://<FHIR ACCOUNT NAME>.azurehealthcareapis.com/Patient

Next steps

In this article, you've learned how to obtain an access token for the Azure API for FHIR using the Azure CLI. To learn how to access the FHIR API using Postman, proceed to the Postman tutorial.

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