Endpoint resource (FHIR R4)

Endpoint is the FHIR R4 resource for the technical details of an endpoint that can be used for electronic services, such as for web services providing XDS.b or a REST endpoint for another FHIR server.

Resource	Endpoint
FHIR version	R4 (4.0.1)
Canonical URL	http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Endpoint
Required elements	status (1..1), connectionType (1..1), payloadType (1..*), address (1..1)

Example

{
  "resourceType": "Endpoint",
  "id": "endpoint-bfb5bffa91e4152ee5815edb4c58fdec",
  "status": "active",
  "connectionType": {
    "system": "http://example.org/pidgeon/synthetic"
  },
  "payloadType": [
    {
      "text": "Synthetic value"
    }
  ],
  "address": "http://example.org/pidgeon/synthetic"
}

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

Validation context

strict pidgeon validate grades a Endpoint 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 Endpoint

Wire it into your AI agent:

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

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