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title: Provider Search
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description: Search for Healthcare providers and accounts based on a free-text input, either from internal Salesforce data or an external system. This API returns account information, including healthcare providers and matching contact point addresses.
---
# Provider Search

Search for Healthcare providers and accounts based on a free-text input, either from internal Salesforce data or an external system. This API returns account information, including healthcare providers and matching contact point addresses.

## Resource

/connect/life-sciences/commercial/provider-search

## Resource Example

Replace {yourInstance} with the My Domain name of your Salesforce org.

https://{yourInstance}.salesforce.com/services/data/v68.0/connect/life-sciences/commercial/provider-search?externalSearch=true

## Available Version

65.0

## HTTP Methods

POST

## Query Parameters for POST

| Parameter Name | Type | Description | Required or Optional |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| external​Search | Boolean | Indicates whether to perform the search on an external system (true) or not (false. By default, this value is set to false and an internal search is performed. | Optional |

## Request Body for POST

{
  "searchInput": "Acme.Corp Dermatology",
  "countryCodes": \[
    "US",
    "IN"
  \]
}

| Name | Type | Description | Required |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| search​Input | String | Free-text input to search for accounts. | Required |
| country​Codes | List<String> | List of country codes to restrict the search to. | Required |

## Response Body for POST

[Provider Search Output](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.life_sciences_dev_guide.meta/life_sciences_dev_guide/connect_responses_provider_search.htm "Output representation for provider search request.")