FamilyMemberHistory resource (FHIR R4)

FamilyMemberHistory is the FHIR R4 resource for significant health conditions for a person related to the patient relevant in the context of care for the patient.

Resource	FamilyMemberHistory
FHIR version	R4 (4.0.1)
Canonical URL	http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/FamilyMemberHistory
Required elements	status (1..1), patient (1..1), relationship (1..1)

Example

{
  "resourceType": "FamilyMemberHistory",
  "id": "familymemberhistory-3509f1d1411b48c0340d3f4f2c2152bc",
  "status": "partial",
  "patient": {
    "reference": "Patient/patient-da059d59292777984b2fc19de312301a"
  },
  "relationship": {
    "text": "Synthetic value"
  }
}

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

Validation context

strict pidgeon validate grades a FamilyMemberHistory 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 FamilyMemberHistory

Wire it into your AI agent:

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

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