DeviceMetric resource (FHIR R4)

DeviceMetric is the FHIR R4 resource for describes a measurement, calculation or setting capability of a medical device.

Resource	DeviceMetric
FHIR version	R4 (4.0.1)
Canonical URL	http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/DeviceMetric
Required elements	type (1..1), category (1..1)

Example

{
  "resourceType": "DeviceMetric",
  "id": "devicemetric-71f14ae6c382f14bd53e91ca6c3e617b",
  "type": {
    "text": "Synthetic value"
  },
  "category": "measurement"
}

Generated by the Pidgeon engine: pidgeon generate DeviceMetric --seed 20260722.

Validation context

strict pidgeon validate grades a DeviceMetric instance against the base R4 structure definition: missing required elements raise REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING and cardinality violations raise CARDINALITY_MIN or CARDINALITY_MAX.(REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING)

This answer, in your terminal

pidgeon lookup DeviceMetric

Wire it into your AI agent:

claude mcp add pidgeon -- npx -y @pidgeonhealth/mcp

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