Others titles
- FHIR Medication Resource
- Electronic Health Records Exchange Through FHIR
Keywords
- FHIR
- HL7
- Medical Terminology
- Processes Data
- Processes Information
- Processes Documentation
- Health Information Exchange
- Electronic Health Records
- FHIR Smart
- Smart on FHIR
Medication

Medication resource is primarily 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.
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Description
Representing medications in the majority of healthcare settings is a matter of identifying an item from a list and then conveying a reference for the item selected either into a patient-related resource or to other applications. Additional information about the medication is frequently provided for human verification, but a full representation of the details of composition and efficacy of the medicine is conveyed by referring to drug dictionaries by means of the codes they define. There are some occasions where it is necessary to identify slightly more detail, such as when dispensing a package containing a particular medication requires identification both of the medicine and the package at once. There are also some occasions (e.g. custom formulations) where the composition of a medicine must be represented. In these cases, the ingredients of the medicine have to be specified together with the amount contained, though the Medication resource does not provide full details.
The Medication resource allows for medications to be characterized by the form of the drug and the ingredient (or ingredients), as well as how it is packaged. The medication will include the ingredient(s) and their strength(s), and the package can include the amount (for example, number of tablets, volume, etc.) that is contained in a particular container (for example, 100 capsules of Amoxicillin 500mg per bottle).
The Medication resource can be used to describe a compounded (aka extemporaneous or magistral) product that is manufactured by the pharmacy at the time of dispensing. In this case there will be multiple ingredients which are typically base chemicals (for example, hydrocortisone powder) and there may be other ingredients that are manufactured products (for example, Glaxal Base).
When a medication includes a package, further details about the composition can be provided. A package has a container (vacuum packed box, jar, etc.) and a list of the products or other packages that are in the package.
About this Dataset
Data Info
Date Created | 2018-09-20 |
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Last Modified | 2023-03-26 |
Version | 5.0.0 |
Update Frequency |
Annual |
Temporal Coverage |
N/A |
Spatial Coverage |
United States |
Source | John Snow Labs; Health Level Seven International; |
Source License URL | |
Source License Requirements |
N/A |
Source Citation |
N/A |
Keywords | FHIR, HL7, Medical Terminology, Processes Data, Processes Information, Processes Documentation, Health Information Exchange, Electronic Health Records, FHIR Smart, Smart on FHIR |
Other Titles | FHIR Medication Resource, Electronic Health Records Exchange Through FHIR |
Data Fields
Name | Description | Type | Constraints |
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Concept_Name | Name of the concept in the FHIR structure. | string | required : 1 |
Computer_Ready_Name | A Computer-ready name (e.g. a token) that identifies the structure - suitable for code generation. Note that this name (and other names relevant for code generation, including element & slice names, codes etc) may collide with reserved words in the relevant target language, and code generators will need to handle this. | string | - |
Type | The type the structure describes. | string | - |
Dollar_Ref | The "$ref" string value contains a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) which identifies the location of the JSON value being referenced. | string | - |
Description | A free text natural language description of the structure and its use. | string | - |
Items | The value of the keyword should be an object or an array of objects. If the keyword value is an object, then for the data array to be valid each item of the array should be valid according to the schema in this value. | string | - |
Required | The value of the keyword should be an array of unique strings. The data object to be valid should contain all properties with names equal to the elements in the keyword value. | string | - |
Const | The value of this keyword can be anything. The data is valid if it is deeply equal to the value of the keyword. | string | - |
Data Preview
Concept Name | Computer Ready Name | Type | Dollar Ref | Description | Items | Required | Const |
Medication | resourceType | This is a Medication resource | |||||
Medication | id | #/definitions/id | The logical id of the resource | ||||
Medication | meta | #/definitions/Meta | The 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. | ||||
Medication | implicitRules | #/definitions/uri | A reference to a set of rules that were followed when the resource was constructed | ||||
Medication | _implicitRules | #/definitions/Element | Extensions for implicitRules | ||||
Medication | language | #/definitions/code | The base language in which the resource is written. | ||||
Medication | _language | #/definitions/Element | Extensions for language | ||||
Medication | text | #/definitions/Narrative | 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 | ||||
Medication | contained | array | These resources do not have an independent existence apart from the resource that contains them - they cannot be identified independently | ||||
Medication | extension | array | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the resource. To make the use of extensions safe and managable |