FHIR MedicationAdministration

Base Path: /fhir/1.0/MedicationAdministration

Version: 2.0.0

The FHIR MedicationAdministration API allows you to look up and retrieve a list of the medications that were administered to the patient. The endpoint provides the ability to:

  • Retrieve all MedicationAdministration resources that match a search criteria for a given patient.
  • Retrieve a specific MedicationAdministration resource based on its resource ID

The data returned in this API is subject to privacy and permissions settings, refer to the Working with Privacy guide to learn how this might affect your application.

This API is based on the DSTU2 release of the FHIR standard, for more information on this API refer to the official FHIR documentation.

Authorization: OAuth 2.0 Bearer token is required to access the resources of this API. Once signed up, credentials and URL to access the OAuth API can be found on My Apps Page.


Methods

Get Administered Medications for a Patient

GET /fhir/1.0/MedicationAdministration/

This method returns all administered medications for the patient identified by patient.identifier. Optionally filtering by the medication's time of administration and status.


Parameters

Name

Type

Data Type

Description


Name:

patient.identifier

required

Type:

query

Data Type:

string

Description:

The patient identifier consists of patient identifier namespace, also known as the system, and identifier, separated using a URL encoded | character i.e. %7c.


Sample Value: ORION|AAAA-0124-8



Name:

effectivetime

optional

Type:

query

Data Type:

array

Description:

Filters the administered medications to those with an administered date-time on, before, or after a specific date, date-time, or date range. The supported prefixes are >, >=, < and <=. If no prefix is used, exact date or date-time matching is implied. Dates must be formatted according to ISO 8601 either as a date only (e.g. 1997-07-16) or as a date-time including the timezone (e.g. 1997-07-16T19:20:30+13:00). Ensure that special characters such as + are URL encoded i.e. %2B.


Sample Value: >2013-01-01T01:00:00%2B13:00



Name:

status

optional

Type:

query

Data Type:

string

Description:

Filters the administered medications to those having the specified status. Possible values are

  • completed
  • entered-in-error
  • stopped


Sample Value: completed


Responses


application/json+fhir

200

Returns a FHIR Bundle containing 0..* OperationOutcome resources and 0..* MedicationAdministration resources

Sample Request

curl -X GET "https://api.orionhealth.io/fhir/1.0/MedicationAdministration/?patient.identifier=ORION%7CAAAA-0124-8&effectivetime=>2013-01-01T01:00:00%2B13:00&status=completed" \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <Access Token>'

Get Administered Medications for a Patient

POST /fhir/1.0/MedicationAdministration/_search

This method returns all administered medications for the patient identified by patient.identifier. Optionally filtering by the medication's time of administration and status. This is the secure alternative to the GET search.


Parameters

Name

Type

Data Type

Description


Name:

Content-Type

required

Type:

header

Data Type:

string

Description:

Specifies how to encode the form data. The Content-Type value must be application/x-www-form-urlencoded


Sample Value: application/x-www-form-urlencoded



Name:

patient.identifier

required

Type:

formData

Data Type:

string

Description:

The patient identifier consists of patient identifier namespace, also known as the system, and identifier, separated using a URL encoded | character i.e. %7c.


Sample Value: ORION|AAAA-0124-8



Name:

effectivetime

optional

Type:

formData

Data Type:

array

Description:

Filters the administered medications to those with an administered date-time on, before, or after a specific date, date-time, or date range. The supported prefixes are >, >=, < and <=. If no prefix is used, exact date or date-time matching is implied. Dates must be formatted according to ISO 8601 either as a date only (e.g. 1997-07-16) or as a date-time including the timezone (e.g. 1997-07-16T19:20:30+13:00). Ensure that special characters such as + are URL encoded i.e. %2B.


Sample Value: >2013-01-01T01:00:00%2B13:00



Name:

status

optional

Type:

formData

Data Type:

string

Description:

Filters the administered medications to those having the specified status. Possible values are

  • completed
  • entered-in-error
  • stopped


Sample Value: completed


Responses


application/json+fhir

200

Returns a FHIR Bundle containing 0..* OperationOutcome resources and 0..* MedicationAdministration resources

Sample Request

curl -X POST "https://api.orionhealth.io/fhir/1.0/MedicationAdministration/_search" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <Access Token>' \
-d 'patient.identifier=ORION%7CAAAA-0124-8' \
-d 'effectivetime=>2013-01-01T01:00:00%2B13:00' \
-d 'status=completed'

Retrieve a single MedicationAdministration

GET /fhir/1.0/MedicationAdministration/{id}

This method returns the MedicationAdministration resource matching the requested resource ID.


Parameters

Name

Type

Data Type

Description


Name:

id

required

Type:

path

Data Type:

string

Description:

The id of the MedicationAdministration resource


Sample Value: M64i


Responses


application/json+fhir

200

Returns a MedicationAdministration resource matching the the requested resource ID.


application/json+fhir

404

No MedicationAdministration resource found with the requested resource ID.

Sample Request

curl -X GET "https://api.orionhealth.io/fhir/1.0/MedicationAdministration/M64i" \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <Access Token>'