The FHIR STU3 MedicationRequest resource is the order or request for both supply of the medication and the instructions for administration of the medication to a patient.

FHIR Resource: MedicationRequest <http://hl7.org/fhir/STU3/medicationrequest.html>

Supported Attributes

Name	Comment
medication
subject	Patient
dosageInstruction
requester
note
authoredOn
recorder
reasonCode
reasonReference
status
intent

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/MedicationRequest

FHIR Operations

The following operations are currently supported:

1. Read

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/MedicationRequest/`{ID}`	GET	Retrieve MedicationRequest resource by ID

2. Search

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/MedicationRequest?[parameter=`{value}`]	GET	Retrieve MedicationRequest resources by the specified search criteria

Parameters:

Key	Type	Description
patient	Reference	Patient Identifier
_lastUpdated	Date
_offset	Number
_count	Number
status		active, on-hold, cancelled, completed, entered-in-error, stopped, draft, unknown

Examples

2.1 Retrieve MedicationRequest records by patient

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/MedicationRequest?patient=8063965523692105bfc35def

2.2 Search records updated since March 2019

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/MedicationRequest?_lastUpdated=gt2019-03&_offset=0&_count=5

2.3 Retrieve records for the given patient updated in 2018

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/MedicationRequest?patient=8063965523692105bfc35def&_lastUpdated=2018

3. Create

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/MedicationRequest	POST	Creates MedicationRequest resource

If resource has status not equal to completed or active then the request is rejected. Only the given statuses are supported.

The following attributes are required:

Name	Details
subject
medication
intent

4. Update

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/MedicationRequest/`{ID}`	PUT	Updates MedicationRequest resource

The following attributes are immutable:

Name	Details
patient
medication

5. Delete

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/MedicationRequest/`{ID}`	DELETE	Deletes MedicationRequest resource