Unable to add the patient's preferred name

[Pedro Simon]

Hi Team,

In one of our features, we allow the patient enter their preferred name. This is what I tried so far:

PATCH /name/-
[
  {
    "path": "/name/-",
    "op": "add",
    "value": {
      "use": "usual",
      "given": [
        "Preferred"
      ]
    }
  }
]

and I'm getting a 422 response, with the following payload:

{
  "resourceType": "OperationOutcome",
  "issue": [
    {
      "severity": "error",
      "code": "business-rule",
      "diagnostics": "$this[0]: operation 'add' for path [/name/-] is not supported"
    }
  ]
}

Request ID: 0d96b1c3-6490-4a5c-8887-40db73d22e0d

Does this mean the addition of new names (a preferred name in this case) is not supported? Is there any way to support our use case?

Thanks!

[Fenil Desani (Cerner)]

Your path seems to be incorrect.

http://fhir.cerner.com/millennium/r4/individuals/patient/#patch

[Pedro Simon]

`/name/-` referred to the operation path. I sent the request to `PATCH /Patient/:id`, as stated in the doc, yes. I attached the request id where you can see the http uri I used is correct.

[Fenil Desani (Cerner)]

Name can only be tested or replaced and not added, using PATCH.
http://fhir.cerner.com/millennium/r4/individuals/patient/#patch-operations