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Person resource (FHIR R4)

Person is the FHIR R4 resource for demographics and administrative information about a person independent of a specific health-related context.

ResourcePerson
FHIR versionR4 (4.0.1)
Canonical URLhttp://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Person
Required elementsnone; every top-level element is optional (min 0) in base R4

Example

{
  "resourceType": "Person",
  "id": "person-3c12f8d91d588c7461a10134bbb8cac0"
}

Generated by the Pidgeon engine: pidgeon generate Person --seed 20260722.

Validation context

  • strict pidgeon validate grades a Person instance against the base R4 structure definition: missing required elements raise REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING and cardinality violations raise CARDINALITY_MIN or CARDINALITY_MAX.(REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING)

This answer, in your terminal

pidgeon lookup Person

Wire it into your AI agent:

claude mcp add pidgeon -- npx -y @pidgeonhealth/mcp

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Published by Pattern Engine LLC (Pidgeon Health).

Rendered from the same machine-readable definitions the Pidgeon engine validates against. Exported from the Pidgeon engine's FHIR R4 definitions (CC0); example generated with seed 20260722.