MedicationRequest

This topic describes information for the MedicationRequest resource.

To interact with the REST endpoints in the MedicationRequest resource, see MedicationRequest.

Overview

The MedicationRequest resource provides discharge medication orders and administration instructions for a patient in the context of a visit.

Soarian Clinicals supports a read-only Application Programming Interface (API). This API accepts GET and POST based search and GET based read interactions. The response represents the most current information about the patient that is charted in Soarian Clinicals at the time of the query.

Note:

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

Error: The common errors and OperationOutcomes may be returned.

The search results include the following fields if they contain values:

• MedicationRequest ID

• Status

• Intent

  • Details in Implementation Notes sections for reads and searches.

• Reported Boolean

• Medication (contained)

  • Medication code

• Patient

• Encounter

• Authored on Date

• Requester

• Dosage Instructions

  • Text

Terminology Bindings

• Medication.code

  Description: A code that defines the medication.

  Details: RxNorm

  System: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm