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 This library is still early along in development, and some important features are missing at the moment:
 
-* Authentication support
 * Remaining API calls
   * [validate](http://hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/http.html#validate)
   * [transaction](http://hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/http.html#transaction)
@@ -532,6 +531,37 @@ technically still exists under previous version numbers).
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+### Authentication
+
+If you need to access FHIR resources on a server requiring authentication, you can
+wrap all of your FHIR calls in `with-auth` which takes a parameter that can specify
+HTTP [basic authentication](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication), 
+[digest authentication](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication) 
+or an [OAuth bearer token](http://self-issued.info/docs/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-bearer.html).
+
+The format you specify username/passwords for basic/digest authentication is the same
+as in [clj-http](https://github.com/dakrone/clj-http): either a vector containing 2
+strings (username and password) or a single string containing both separated by a colon.
+
+##### Examples
+
+```clojure
+; no authentication ...
+(search server-url :patient [(eq :name "smith")])
+
+; HTTP basic auth
+(with-auth {:basic-auth ["user" "pass"]}
+  (search server-url :patient [(eq :name "smith")]))
+
+; HTTP digest auth
+(with-auth {:digest-auth ["user" "pass"]}
+  (search server-url :patient [(eq :name "smith")]))
+
+; OAuth bearer token
+(with-auth {:oauth-token user-oauth-token}
+  (search server-url :patient [(eq :name "smith")]))
+```
+
 ### Error Handling
 
 All API functions throw exceptions via `ex-info` when an unexpected error response is