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Medication

Overview

The Medication resource is used for the identification and definition of a medication for the purposes of prescribing, dispensing, and administering a medication as well as for making statements about medication use.

Each Medication has next elements:

  • a medication code

Profile specific implementation guidance:

  • RXNorm concepts are used and are defined as an extensible binding. USCDI V3+ recommends the National Drug Codes (NDC) as an optional terminology. They can be supplied as an additional coding element.
  • Since the binding is extensible, when a code is unavailable just text is allowed.
  • When the medication is compounded and is a list of ingredients, the code is still present and may contain only the text.

This resource conforms to USCDI V3 profile for Medication - refer to StructureDefinition US Core Medication. Medication response will be provided in JSON (refers to Capability Statement) format as per FHIR standard R4 version.

Must support elements, mandatory and optional search parameters

Medication must support these elements:

  • code

No required search criteria for us-core-medication profile.

The response to any search operation is always a list of resources in a Bundle or an Operation Outcome.

EXAMPLE:

curl --location --request GET 'https://sandbox.fhir.elationemr.com/fhir/Medication?patient=Patient/c5137fa5-3216-b12a-cbbc-a0c6bef361g7' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer fe1cd986-1ac7-4c26-b8b3-d632a48408fd'

Medication By Id

Get Medication by ID.

METHOD GET

[base url]/Medication/[id]

or

[base url]/Medication?_id=[id]

PARAMS

[base url] - FHIR base url

[id] - Id for Medication resource

HEADERS

The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during Authentication and Authorization process. Goto Authentication and Authorization for further details.

Header Type Required/Optional Value
Authorization string required 'Bearer'

RESPONSES

Code Description Comment
200 OK The request was processed successfully
400 Bad request Invalid request parameters or FHIR operation outcome resource returned
401 Unauthorized This code indicates that the client request has not been completed because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the requested resource
404 no Route matched with those values The request was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested
500 Internal Server Error The server has encountered a situation it doesn't know how to handle

EXAMPLE:

curl --location --request GET 'https://sandbox.fhir.elationemr.com/fhir/Medication/c5137fa5-3216-b12a-cbbc-a0c6bef361g7' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer fe1cd986-1ac7-4c26-b8b3-d632a48408fd'