MedicationRequest

An order or request for both supply of the medication and the instructions for administration of the medication to a patient.

Response Description

Sample Response

{

 "resourceType": "MedicationRequest",

 "id": "DEV-DEV-11913-26708",

 "meta": {

       "lastUpdated": "2022-11-17T12:00:00-05:00",

 "profile": [

 "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-medicationrequest"

 ]

   },

 "text": {

 "status": "generated",

 "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Patient:</td><td>Cole Andersonian, Sr. (DEV-DEV-11913)</td></tr><tr><td>Brand Name:</td><td>Tylenol PM Pill</td></tr><tr><td>Generic Name:</td><td>acetaminophen</td></tr><tr><td>RxNorm Code:</td><td>1187314</td></tr><tr><td>Start Date:</td><td>11/01/2021</td></tr><tr><td>Stop Date:</td><td>11/17/2022</td></tr><tr><td>Patient Notes:</td><td>Takes 1-2 tablets once daily at bedtime as needed for restless legs</td></tr></tbody></table></div>"

 },

 "status": "completed",

 "intent": "plan",

 "reportedBoolean": false,

 "authoredOn": "2021-11-01",

 "subject": {

       "reference": "Patient/DEV-DEV-11913",

 "display": "Cole Andersonian, Sr. (DEV-DEV-11913)"

    },

 "medicationCodeableConcept": {

       "coding": [

 {

 "system": "http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm",

 "code": "1187314",

 "display": "Tylenol PM Pill"

    }

   ]

  },

 "dosageInstruction": [

       {

 "text": "no information available"

    }

   ],

 "encounter": {

 "reference": "Encounter/DEV-DEV-11913-0014792",

 "display": "10/25/2022 at 7:00 am, Blood Pressure Visit with provider 117 at location OF1"

    },

 "requester": {

 "reference": "Patient/DEV-DEV-11913",

 "display": "Cole Andersonian, Sr. (DEV-DEV-11913)"

    },

 "note": [

 {

 "text": "Takes 1-2 tablets once daily at bedtime as needed for restless legs"

    }

  ]

}

MedicationRequest.id

The logical ID of the resource, as used in the URL for the resource. Once assigned, this value never changes.

MedicationRequest.meta

Metadata about the resource. This is content that is maintained by the infrastructure. Changes to the content might not always be associated with version changes to the resource.

MedicationRequest.text

A human-readable narrative that contains a summary of the resource and can be used to represent the content of the resource to a human. The narrative need not encode all the structured data, but is required to contain sufficient detail to make it "clinically safe" for a human to just read the narrative.

MedicationRequest.status

A code specifying the current state of the MedicationRequest. Generally, this will be active or completed state.

MedicationRequest.intent

A code specifying the intent of the MedicationRequest. Generally this will be plan or order.

MedicationRequest.reportedBoolean

Indicates if this record was captured as a secondary 'reported' record rather than as an original primary source-of-truth record.

MedicationRequest.authoredOn

The date when the prescription was initially written or authored on.

MedicationRequest.subject

A link to a resource representing the person or set of individuals to whom the medication will be given.

MedicationRequest.medicationCodeableConcept

Identifies the medication being requested.

MedicationRequest.dosageInstruction

Indicates how the medication is to be used by the patient.

MedicationRequest.dosageInstruction.text

Free text dosage instructions e.g. SIG.

MedicationRequest.encounter

The Encounter which the creation of this record is tightly associated.

MedicationRequest.requester

The individual, organization, or device that initiated the request and has responsibility for its activation.

MedicationRequest.note

Extra information about the prescription that could not be conveyed by the other attributes

Search

URL Syntax

Two HTTP methods are supported for searching: GET and POST. It is recommended to use HTTP POST.

Visit the FHIR Sandbox to try requests.

HTTP GET - searching

https://sandbox.pai.healthcare/preview/fhir/MedicationRequest?{query string}

HTTP GET - return single record

https://sandbox.pai.healthcare/preview/fhir/MedicationRequest/{resource id}

HTTP POST - searching

https://sandbox.pai.healthcare/preview/fhir/MedicationRequest/_search

•Set the Content-Type header to application/x-www-urlencoded

•The body of the request is a similar query string used in the GET type of request detailed above.

Error Handling

If no records are returned or invalid search parameters are provided, then an HTTP 400 Bad Request is returned.

The body of the response will be an OperationOutcome.

Supported Search Parameters

_id

patient

encounter

patient + intent

patient + intent + status

patient + intent + encounter