---
title: "cloud-healthcare-get-fhir-resource"
linkTitle: "cloud-healthcare-get-fhir-resource"
type: docs
weight: 1
description: >
A "cloud-healthcare-get-fhir-resource" tool retrieves a specific FHIR resource.
aliases:
- /resources/tools/cloud-healthcare-get-fhir-resource
---
## About
A `cloud-healthcare-get-fhir-resource` tool retrieves a specific FHIR resource
from a FHIR store.
It's compatible with the following sources:
- [cloud-healthcare](../../sources/cloud-healthcare.md)
`cloud-healthcare-get-fhir-resource` returns a single FHIR resource, identified
by its type and ID.
## Example
```yaml
tools:
get_fhir_resource:
kind: cloud-healthcare-get-fhir-resource
source: my-healthcare-source
description: Use this tool to retrieve a specific FHIR resource.
```
## Reference
| **field** | **type** | **required** | **description** |
|-------------|:--------:|:------------:|----------------------------------------------------|
| kind | string | true | Must be "cloud-healthcare-get-fhir-resource". |
| source | string | true | Name of the healthcare source. |
| description | string | true | Description of the tool that is passed to the LLM. |
### Parameters
| **field** | **type** | **required** | **description** |
|--------------|:--------:|:------------:|------------------------------------------------------------------|
| resourceType | string | true | The FHIR resource type to retrieve (e.g., Patient, Observation). |
| resourceID | string | true | The ID of the FHIR resource to retrieve. |
| storeID | string | true* | The FHIR store ID to retrieve the resource from. |
*If the `allowedFHIRStores` in the source has length 1, then the `storeID`
parameter is not needed.