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Network is the API underneath everything in Photon. It has three upserts, patient, prescription and order, two ways to call them, and webhooks to hear what happens next:

GraphQL

For your backend: sync patients and draft prescriptions and orders with a machine token.

MCP

For agents: take intake, search drugs and draft prescriptions as tools. In private preview.

Webhooks

For your backend: get notified as orders are sent, filled, shipped and picked up.

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Three upserts

Network has no queries. Each record has one mutation, and how you call it decides what it does:

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Photon decides, then tells you

Send what you know, and Photon does the matching, resolution and screening, so your code doesn’t have to. Each response reports what Photon did:
  • The record, as saved.
  • appliedChanges: what was written.
  • unappliedChanges: what wasn’t, and why. When Photon isn’t sure, this lists the options to pick from.
See Changes and choices.

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Where Network stops

A machine token can do everything except sign. Signing and sending need a signed-in prescriber, which is what Prescribe is for. Typically, your backend syncs patients and drafts prescriptions and orders. A prescriber then opens the draft in Prescribe, signs it and sends it. See Authentication.