MedicationDispense REST Endpoints

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MedicationDispense

This topic describes information for the MedicationDispense resource.

Overview

Note:

The FHIR API endpoints described below are currently pending production deployment for electronic health record (EHR) environments. Developers are welcome and encouraged to develop against the specifications in anticipation of production availability, which will be announced at a later date.

The MedicationDispense resource indicates that a medication product is to be or has been dispensed for a named person or patient. This information includes a description of the medication product (supply) provided and the instructions for administering the medication. The medication dispense is the result of a pharmacy system responding to a medication order.

MedicationDispense.medication may be a reference to a contained medication when the medication cannot be represented by a CodeableConcept because it contains a unique combination of ingredients. Medications in the system exist in the context of a medication dispense and cannot be referenced independently.

Profile Support

This resource supports the following HL7 FHIR US Core Implementation Guide STU 6.1.0 profiles:

• US Core MedicationDispense Profile
  • US Core Medication Profile

Note:

The examples provided here are nonnormative and replaying them in the public sandbox is not guaranteed to yield the results shown on the site.

Returned Fields

Element	Type
MedicationDispense.id	id
MedicationDispense.status	code
MedicationDispense.medication[x]	CodeableConcept Reference(Medication)
MedicationDispense.subject	Reference(Patient)
MedicationDispense.performer	BackboneElement
MedicationDispense.performer.actor	Reference(Practitioner)
MedicationDispense.authorizingPrescription	Reference(MedicationRequest)
MedicationDispense.type	CodeableConcept
MedicationDispense.quantity	SimpleQuantity
MedicationDispense.whenHandedOver	dateTime
MedicationDispense.dosageInstruction	Dosage
Dosage.text	string
Dosage.timing	Timing
Dosage.doseAndRate	BackboneElement

Terminology Bindings

Element	Description	Details
MedicationDispense.status	A code specifying the state of the set of dispense events.	System
MedicationDispense.medicationCodeableConcept	A code that defines the medication that was dispensed.	RxNorm
MedicationDispense.type	The type of dispensing event that is performed. For example, Trial Fill, Completion of Trial, Partial Fill, Emergency Fill, Samples, and so on.	ActPharmacySupplyType
MedicationDispense.dosageInstruction.timing.code	A code for a known or defined timing pattern.	TimingAbbreviation SNOMED CT
Medication.code	A code (or set of codes) that specify this medication, or a textual description if no code is available. This code could be a standard medication code such as a code from RxNorm, SNOMED CT, IDMP, and so on. The code could also be a national or local formulary code, optionally with translations to other code systems.	RxNorm
Medication.form	A code that describes the form of the item (powder, tablets, capsule, and so on).	SNOMED CT System

MedicationDispense

The operations from the MedicationDispense category.

Get a list of medication dispenses

Method: get

Path: /MedicationDispense

Get a medication dispense by ID

Method: get

Path: /MedicationDispense/{id}