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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.

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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:

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Medication By Id

Get Medication by ID. METHOD GET
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PARAMS
[base url] - FHIR base url
[id] - Id for Medication resource HEADERS The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during the Authentication and Authorization process. Go to Authentication and Authorization for further details. RESPONSES EXAMPLE: