Medication resource (FHIR R4)

Medication is the FHIR R4 resource for this resource is primarily used for the identification and definition of a medication for the purposes of prescribing, dispensing, and administering a medication as well as for making statements about medication use.

Example

{
  "resourceType": "Medication",
  "id": "medication-bef757911e5b0ff41205997b66c25c7a",
  "code": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm",
        "code": "omitted",
        "display": "RxNorm code omitted from this published example"
      },
      {
        "system": "http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/ndc",
        "code": "0378-8260-93",
        "display": "Ritalin 5mg"
      }
    ],
    "text": "Ritalin 5mg"
  },
  "status": "active",
  "form": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
        "code": "omitted",
        "display": "SNOMED CT code omitted from this published example"
      }
    ],
    "text": "tablet"
  }
}

Generated by the Pidgeon engine: pidgeon generate Medication --seed 20260722. Codes from licensed terminologies (LOINC, SNOMED CT, CPT, RxNorm) are omitted from published examples.

Validation context

• strict pidgeon validate grades a Medication 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)
• strict Profile validation grades the same instance against an installed IG profile: profile cardinality findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY and terminology binding findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-BINDING.(FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY)