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Link his/her health records

Be invoked by the patient or user to link their health records.

POST/api/hiecm/user-initiated-linking/v3/link/care-context/init

By using this API, patients can initiate the process of associating their health information with their ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account) address. This functionality empowers patients to actively manage and consolidate their health records, ensuring that all relevant care contexts are accurately linked and accessible. The API supports a seamless and efficient health information exchange, enhancing the overall quality and continuity of care within the healthcare ecosystem.

Authorizations

Authorizationbearer tokenRequired

The access token from POST /api/hiecm/gateway/v3/sessions, sent with a Bearer prefix.

Headers

REQUEST-IDstringRequired

Unique UUID for track the end to end request transaction

TIMESTAMPstringRequired

Actual time of the request was initiated, ISO 8601 represents date and time by starting with the year, followed by the month, the day, the hour, the minutes, seconds and milliseconds

X-CM-IDstringRequired

Suffix of the consent manager to which the request was intended

X-HIU-IDstringRequired

Identifier of the health information user to which the request was intended

X-AUTH-TOKENstringRequired

JWT Authentication token which was issued by ABDM after successful validation of username and password

Body

transactionIdstringRequired

UUID from discover request callback to track the entire user link flow

patientobject[]Required
patient.referenceNumberstringRequired

A patient identifier with which patient is registered in the facility/hospital.Allows alpha numeric characters and special characters like "^[a-zA-Z0-9_\\-@,. ()/:\\\\]{0,255}$"

patient.displaystringRequired

Display text for patient reference.Allows alpha numeric characters and special characters like "^[a-zA-Z0-9_\\-@,. \"':|()/]{0,255}$"

patient.careContextsobject[]Required

List of care contexts linked at the HIP end for the identified patient.

patient.careContexts.referenceNumberstringRequired

An identifier of patient's care context created in HIP. A care context is a group of patient's health data (Not the actual health data).Allows alpha numeric characters and special characters like "^[a-zA-Z0-9_\\-@,. ()/:\\\\]{0,255}$"

patient.careContexts.displaystring

Display text for care context reference.Allows alpha numeric characters and special characters like "^[a-zA-Z0-9_\\-@,. \"':|()/]{0,255}$"

patient.hiTypestringRequired

The health information type

One of DiagnosticReportDischargeSummaryHealthDocumentRecordImmunizationRecordOPConsultationPrescriptionWellnessRecordInvoice

patient.countintegerRequired

The count should match the number of care contexts in the payload

Responses

202

Accepted

The callback never arrives

400

Bad Request

Error codes for this module

errorobject

The error code and message, if any occurred.

error.codestringRequired

ABDM-1104 - Duplicate Init request. May be returned either bare or with a trailing ": " separator; match on the code itself and tolerate the separator.

error.messagestringRequired
401

Unauthorized

Everything returns 401

codestring

900901 - Invalid Credentials. May be returned either bare or with a trailing ": " separator; match on the code itself and tolerate the separator.

messagestring
descriptionstring
403

Forbidden

Error codes for this module

500

Internal Server Error

Error codes for this module

timestampnumberRequired
pathstringRequired
statusintegerRequired
errorstringRequired

The error code and message, if any occurred.

requestIdstringRequired

The request id from discover call back .Allows alpha numeric characters and special characters like "^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}\\b-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\\b-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\\b-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\\b-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}"

Callbacks​

  • After this call, ABDM posts This API endpoint is used by healthcare information users (HIUs) to receive the initial linking of care contexts for a patient. It provides detailed information about the linking process, including authentication details and any errors encountered. to /api/v3/hiu/patient/care-context/on-init. Open the callback.