Get Patient V1

August 2025

GET /api/patients/[id] → GET /api/patients/v2/[id]

Context

Bridge has an externalId concept on many resources, including Patient. Endpoints that retrieve Patients have been upgraded to support querying by externalId. Uniqueness on this field was not originally enforced, but must be to support safely querying.

Changes

If the [id] path parameter value is not a Bridge Patient ID, it will search by externalId.

Migration

For predictable behavior, it is important that the V2 version of Create Patient is used to enforce unqiue values.

Priority

This is relevant if your system does not store the Bridge Patient ID, and references the Patient by externalId with other endpoints.

If you are retaining the Bridge Patient ID, and using that downstream, this is not a priority.

There are currently no plans to fully remove this endpoint.