US Meds Implementation Guide (Release 1.2.0)

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Get All Active Medications for an Encounter Example

Storyboard for this example

The following example is based upon the following scenario.

Patient Brain Z has presented with the same condition (pneumonia) as in a previous inpatient encounter. Provider A (Dr Cayr) uses a desktop or mobile application to request all the medications from this previous inpatient encounter (Encounter A).

Medication records for Patient Brian Z during Encounter A

Item Date Script Source Notes
1 9/10/2016 - 9/12-2016 Cefatoxime 1gm intravenously every 6 hours Provider B’s Order Administered in hospital
2 9/10/2016 - 9/12-2016 Zithromax (azithromycin) 500 MG in 250 ml Normal Saline intravenous infusion over 1hr daily Provider B’s Order Administered in hospital
3 9/10/2016 - 9/12-2016 Ketorolac 15 mg intravenously every 6 hours Provider B’s Order Administered in hospital
2 9/10/2016 - 9/12-2016 LRS Solution 200 ml/hr intravenously CRI Provider B’s Order Administered in hospital
5 9/12/2016 Amoxicillin 500mg by mouth every 6 hours for 10 days Provider B’s Order discharge prescription, patient reported did not comply (fill prescription)
6 9/12/2016 Zithromax (azithromycin) 250mg by mouth every 12 hours for 10 days Provider B’s Order discharge prescription, patient reported did not comply (fill prescription)

Request:

Get “all medications” for a patient inpatient encounter by querying MedicationStatement using the patient and encounter search parameters.

GET [base]/MedicationStatement?patient=test2&context=A

Response:

A Server returns a search Bundle resource containing all the MedicationStatements for the patient Brian Z during inpatient Encounter A:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[other headers]
"id": "get-encounter-meds",
"meta": {
  "versionId": "1",
  "lastUpdated": "2017-04-10T12:49:37.665-04:00"
},
"type": "searchset",
"total": 6,
 ...snip...
 "entry": [
   {
     "fullUrl": "http://wildfhir.aegis.net/fhir3-0-0/MedicationStatement/derivedfrom-mr-enca-1",
     "resource": {
       "resourceType": "MedicationStatement",
       "id": "derivedfrom-mr-enca-1",
  ...snip...
  },
  "context": {
    "reference": "Encounter/A",
    "display": "Inpatient Encounter A"
  },
  "status": "completed",
  "medicationCodeableConcept": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm",
        "code": "1656313",
        "display": "Cefotaxime 1000 MG Injection"
      }
    ],
    "text": "Cefotaxime 1000Mg Powder For Solution For Injection"
  },
  ...snip...
  "fullUrl": "http://wildfhir.aegis.net/fhir3-0-0/MedicationStatement/derivedfrom-mr-enca-2",
  "resource": {
    "resourceType": "MedicationStatement",
    "id": "derivedfrom-mr-enca-2",
    ...snip...
    },
    "context": {
      "reference": "Encounter/A",
      "display": "Inpatient Encounter A"
    },
    "status": "completed",
    "medicationCodeableConcept": {
      "coding": [
        {
          "system": "http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm",
          "code": "860092",
          "display": "1 ML Ketorolac Tromethamine 15 MG/ML Injection"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ketorolac Tromethamine 15 MG/ML For Injection"
    },
    ...snip...
    "fullUrl": "http://wildfhir.aegis.net/fhir3-0-0/MedicationStatement/derivedfrom-mr-enca-3",
    "resource": {
      "resourceType": "MedicationStatement",
      "id": "derivedfrom-mr-enca-3",
      ...snip...
      "contained": [
        {
          "resourceType": "Medication",
          "id": "med-1",
          "meta": {
            "profile": [
              "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-medication"
            ]
          },
          "code": {
            "text": "Azithromycin 500mg in 250 ml Normal Saline"
          },
          ...snip...
          },
        "context": {
          "reference": "Encounter/A",
          "display": "Inpatient Encounter A"
        },
        "status": "completed",
        "medicationReference": {
            "reference": "#med-1"
          },
          ...snip...
      "fullUrl": "http://wildfhir.aegis.net/fhir3-0-0/MedicationStatement/derivedfrom-mr-enca-4",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "MedicationStatement",
        "id": "derivedfrom-mr-enca-4",
      ...snip...
      "context": {
        "reference": "Encounter/A",
        "display": "Inpatient Encounter A"
      },
      "status": "completed",
      "medicationCodeableConcept": {
        "coding": [
          {
            "system": "http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm",
            "code": "860601",
            "display": "Calcium Chloride 0.0014 MEQ/ML / Potassium Chloride 0.024 MEQ/ML / Sodium Chloride 0.103 MEQ/ML / Sodium Lactate 0.028 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution"
          }
        ],
        "text": "LRS"
        ...snip...
      "fullUrl": "http://wildfhir.aegis.net/fhir3-0-0/MedicationStatement/derivedfrom-mr-enca-5",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "MedicationStatement",
        "id": "derivedfrom-mr-enca-5",
      ...snip...
      "context": {
        "reference": "Encounter/A",
        "display": "Inpatient Encounter A"
      },
      "status": "active",
      "medicationCodeableConcept": {
        "coding": [
          {
            "system": "http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm",
            "code": "212446",
            "display": "Zithromax 250 MG Oral Tablet"
          }
        ],
        "text": "Zithromax 500 MG Oral Tablet"
        ...snip...
      "fullUrl": "http://wildfhir.aegis.net/fhir3-0-0/MedicationStatement/derivedfrom-mr-enca-6",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "MedicationStatement",
        "id": "derivedfrom-mr-enca-6",
      ...snip...
      },
      "context": {
        "reference": "Encounter/A",
        "display": "Inpatient Encounter A"
      },
      "status": "active",
      "medicationCodeableConcept": {
        "coding": [
          {
            "system": "http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm",
            "code": "308191",
            "display": "Amoxicillin 500 MG Oral Capsule"
          }
        ],
        "text": "Amoxicillin 500 MG"

 ]
}

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