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# Person

> Demographics and administrative information about a person independent of a specific health-related context.

## Properties

| Name | Required | Type | Description |
| - | - | - | - |
| identifier | No | [Identifier](/medical-api/fhir/data-types/identifier)\[] | A human identifier for this person |
| name | No | [HumanName](/medical-api/fhir/data-types/humanname)\[] | A name associated with the person |
| telecom | No | [ContactPoint](/medical-api/fhir/data-types/contactpoint)\[] | A contact detail for the person |
| gender | No | code | male / female / other / unknown |
| birthDate | No | date | The date on which the person was born |
| address | No | [Address](/medical-api/fhir/data-types/address)\[] | One or more addresses for the person |
| photo | No | [Attachment](/medical-api/fhir/data-types/attachment) | Image of the person |
| managingOrganization | No | Reference\<[Organization](/medical-api/fhir/resources/organization)> | The organization that is the custodian of the person record |
| active | No | boolean | This person's record is in active use |
| link | No | PersonLink | Link to a resource that concerns the same actual person |
| - id | No | string | Unique id for inter-element referencing |
| - extension | No | [Extension](/medical-api/fhir/data-types/extension)\[] | Additional content defined by implementations |
| - modifierExtension | No | [Extension](/medical-api/fhir/data-types/extension)\[] | Extensions that cannot be ignored even if unrecognized |
| - target | Yes | Reference\<[Patient](/medical-api/fhir/resources/patient) / [Practitioner](/medical-api/fhir/resources/practitioner) / [RelatedPerson](/medical-api/fhir/resources/relatedperson) / [Person](/medical-api/fhir/resources/person)> | The resource to which this actual person is associated |
| - assurance | No | code | level1 / level2 / level3 / level4 |

## Search Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Expression |
| - | - | - | - |
| address | string | A server defined search that may match any of the string fields in the Address, including line, city, district, state, country, postalCode, and/or text | Person.address |
| address-city | string | A city specified in an address | Person.address.city |
| address-country | string | A country specified in an address | Person.address.country |
| address-postalcode | string | A postal code specified in an address | Person.address.postalCode |
| address-state | string | A state specified in an address | Person.address.state |
| address-use | token | A use code specified in an address | Person.address.use |
| birthdate | date | The person's date of birth | Person.birthDate |
| email | token | A value in an email contact | Person.telecom |
| gender | token | The gender of the person | Person.gender |
| phone | token | A value in a phone contact | Person.telecom |
| phonetic | string | A portion of name using some kind of phonetic matching algorithm | Person.name |
| telecom | token | The value in any kind of contact | Person.telecom |
| identifier | token | A person Identifier | Person.identifier |
| link | reference | Any link has this Patient, Person, RelatedPerson or Practitioner reference | Person.link.target |
| name | string | A server defined search that may match any of the string fields in the HumanName, including family, give, prefix, suffix, suffix, and/or text | Person.name |
| organization | reference | The organization at which this person record is being managed | Person.managingOrganization |
| patient | reference | The Person links to this Patient | Person.link.target |
| practitioner | reference | The Person links to this Practitioner | Person.link.target |
| relatedperson | reference | The Person links to this RelatedPerson | Person.link.target |

## Inherited Properties

| Name | Required | Type | Description |
| - | - | - | - |
| id | No | string | Logical id of this artifact |
| meta | No | [Meta](/medical-api/fhir/data-types/meta) | Metadata about the resource |
| implicitRules | No | uri | A set of rules under which this content was created |
| language | No | code | Language of the resource content |
| text | No | [Narrative](/medical-api/fhir/data-types/narrative) | Text summary of the resource, for human interpretation |
| contained | No | Resource\[] | Contained, inline Resources |
| extension | No | [Extension](/medical-api/fhir/data-types/extension)\[] | Additional content defined by implementations |
| modifierExtension | No | [Extension](/medical-api/fhir/data-types/extension)\[] | Extensions that cannot be ignored |

To view the FHIR specification for this resource, see [Person](https://www.hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Person).


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