# Get started

Canonical page: https://docs.ovok.com/get-started

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    <p className="text-lg leading-relaxed">Ovok is a FHIR backend for medical apps. It stores your clinical data as FHIR R4, brings readings in from supported devices, and hands vital signs to Signals for alert decisions.</p>
    <p className="text-fd-muted-foreground">Your team builds the patient and clinician experience. Ovok runs the data, device and alerting layer underneath.</p>
    <a href="/get-started/quickstart" className="inline-flex items-center gap-1 rounded-md bg-fd-primary px-4 py-2 text-sm font-medium text-fd-primary-foreground">Create your first app →</a>
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    <figcaption className="border-b px-4 py-2 font-medium">Sandbox</figcaption>
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      <dt className="text-fd-muted-foreground">Base URL</dt>
      <dd className="m-0 font-mono">https://api.sandbox.ovok.com</dd>
      <dt className="text-fd-muted-foreground">FHIR path</dt>
      <dd className="m-0 font-mono">/fhir/R4/</dd>
      <dt className="text-fd-muted-foreground">Create an app</dt>
      <dd className="m-0 font-mono">pnpm create ovok my-app</dd>
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## Start building [#start-building]

<Cards>
  <Card title="Create your first app" href="/get-started/quickstart">
    Scaffold web and mobile apps connected to the sandbox with `create-ovok`.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Set up your project" href="/authentication/project-setup">
    Create a project and turn on the sign-in your users need.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Learn FHIR basics" href="/fhir-basics">
    Resources, references and searches, the way Ovok uses them.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Run an example app" href="/example-rpm-app">
    A patient app, a clinician dashboard and a clinic EHR, all public.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Build with AI agents" href="/working-with-ai-agents">
    The Ovok skill, the MCP server and the AI-readable docs.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Follow a guide" href="/guides">
    Build a remote-monitoring app from sign-in to alerts.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## How Ovok fits together [#how-ovok-fits-together]

<ArchitectureDiagram />

- **FHIR data.** Patients, devices, observations and the rest live as FHIR R4 resources, with focused routes for
  common monitoring workflows.
- **Devices.** Readings from supported blood-pressure monitors, sleep radars, SpO₂ monitors, urine analysers and
  wearables arrive as observations you can read live or as history.
- **Care operations.** Projects and sub-projects organise patients, devices, thresholds and teams.
- **Alerts.** For patients enrolled in [Signals](/signals), an MDR Class IIa medical device, Ovok forwards eligible
  vital signs and brings the alert decisions back into your app.

## Choose your SDK [#choose-your-sdk]

| SDK | Package | Use it for |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [JavaScript](/web-sdk) | `@ovok/core` | Web apps and TypeScript services |
| [React Native](/native-sdk) | `@ovok/native` | Mobile apps, Bluetooth devices, health-data sync |
| [Java](/java-sdk) | `com.ovok:ovok-sdk` | JVM services |
| [Python](/python-sdk) | `ovok-sdk` | Services, scripts and data work |
| [Flutter](/flutter-sdk) | `ovok_sdk` | Dart and Flutter apps |

Every SDK speaks to the same API, so you can also call it directly: start with
[authentication](/authentication) and the [FHIR resources](/api/fhir/r4).

## See also [#see-also]

- [Create your first app](/get-started/quickstart)
- [Access policies](/access-policies)
- [Signals](/signals)
- [Errors](/errors)