Proposed Pull Request Change

📄 Document Links

View on GitHub View on Microsoft Learn

--- title: Get access token using Azure CLI - Azure API for FHIR description: This article explains how to obtain an access token for Azure API for FHIR using the Azure CLI. services: healthcare-apis author: expekesheth ms.service: azure-health-data-services ms.subservice: fhir ms.custom: devx-track-azurecli ms.topic: conceptual ms.date: 11/21/2025 ms.author: kesheth --- # Get access token for Azure API for FHIR using Azure CLI [!INCLUDE[retirement banner](../includes/healthcare-apis-azure-api-fhir-retirement.md)] In this article, you learn how to obtain an access token for the Azure API for FHIR&reg; using the Azure CLI. When you [provision the Azure API for FHIR](fhir-paas-portal-quickstart.md), 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. [!INCLUDE[azure-cli-prepare-your-environment.md](~/reusable-content/azure-cli/azure-cli-prepare-your-environment.md)] ## Obtain a token The Azure API for FHIR uses a `resource` or `Audience` with a 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. ```azurecli-interactive $token=$(az account get-access-token --resource=https://<FHIR ACCOUNT NAME>.azurehealthcareapis.com --query accessToken --output tsv) ``` ## Use with Azure API for FHIR ```azurecli-interactive curl -X GET --header "Authorization: Bearer $token" https://<FHIR ACCOUNT NAME>.azurehealthcareapis.com/Patient ``` ## Next steps In this article, you 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 REST Client: >[!div class="nextstepaction"] >[Access the FHIR service using REST Client](./../fhir/using-rest-client.md) [!INCLUDE[FHIR trademark statement](../includes/healthcare-apis-fhir-trademark.md)]