R6 Ballot (1st Draft)

This page is part of the FHIR Specification v6.0.0-ballot1: Release 6 Ballot (1st Draft) (see Ballot Notes). The current version is 5.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Example Bundle/bundle-references (JSON)

FHIR Infrastructure Work GroupMaturity Level: N/AStandards Status: InformativeCompartments: No defined compartments

Raw JSON (canonical form + also see JSON Format Specification)

An example bundle that demonstrates various reference resolution paths

{
  "resourceType" : "Bundle",
  "id" : "bundle-references",
  "type" : "collection",
  "entry" : [{
    "fullUrl" : "http://example.org/fhir/Patient/23",
    "resource" : {
      "resourceType" : "Patient",
      "id" : "23",
      "text" : {
        "status" : "generated",
        "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p style=\"border: 1px #661aff solid; background-color: #e6e6ff; padding: 10px;\"><b>Anonymous Patient</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown ( id:\u00a01234567)</p><hr/></div>"
      },
      "identifier" : [{
        "system" : "http://example.org/ids",
        "value" : "1234567"
      }]
    }
  },
  {
    "fullUrl" : "urn:uuid:04121321-4af5-424c-a0e1-ed3aab1c349d",
    "resource" : {
      "resourceType" : "Patient",
      "id" : "temp",
      "text" : {
        "status" : "generated",
        "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p style=\"border: 1px #661aff solid; background-color: #e6e6ff; padding: 10px;\"><b>Anonymous Patient</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown</p><hr/></div>"
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "fullUrl" : "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/123",
    "resource" : {
      "resourceType" : "Observation",
      "id" : "123",
      "text" : {
        "status" : "generated",
        "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"123\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;123&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">Patient/23</a></p></div>"
      },
      "status" : "final",
      "code" : {
        "coding" : [{
          "system" : "http://loinc.org",
          "code" : "15074-8",
          "display" : "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
        }]
      },
      "subject" : {
        "reference" : "Patient/23"
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "fullUrl" : "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/124",
    "resource" : {
      "resourceType" : "Observation",
      "id" : "124",
      "text" : {
        "status" : "generated",
        "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"124\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;124&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">http://example.org/fhir/Patient/23</a></p></div>"
      },
      "status" : "final",
      "code" : {
        "coding" : [{
          "system" : "http://loinc.org",
          "code" : "15074-8",
          "display" : "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
        }]
      },
      "subject" : {
        "reference" : "http://example.org/fhir/Patient/23"
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "fullUrl" : "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/12",
    "resource" : {
      "resourceType" : "Observation",
      "id" : "12",
      "text" : {
        "status" : "generated",
        "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"12\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;12&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">urn:uuid:04121321-4af5-424c-a0e1-ed3aab1c349d</a></p></div>"
      },
      "status" : "final",
      "code" : {
        "coding" : [{
          "system" : "http://loinc.org",
          "code" : "15074-8",
          "display" : "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
        }]
      },
      "subject" : {
        "reference" : "urn:uuid:04121321-4af5-424c-a0e1-ed3aab1c349d"
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "fullUrl" : "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/14",
    "resource" : {
      "resourceType" : "Observation",
      "id" : "14",
      "text" : {
        "status" : "generated",
        "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"14\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;14&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">http://example.org/fhir-2/Patient/1</a></p></div>"
      },
      "status" : "final",
      "code" : {
        "coding" : [{
          "system" : "http://loinc.org",
          "code" : "15074-8",
          "display" : "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
        }]
      },
      "subject" : {
        "reference" : "http://example.org/fhir-2/Patient/1"
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "fullUrl" : "http://example.org/fhir-2/Observation/14",
    "resource" : {
      "resourceType" : "Observation",
      "id" : "14",
      "text" : {
        "status" : "generated",
        "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"14\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;14&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">Patient/23</a></p></div>"
      },
      "status" : "final",
      "code" : {
        "coding" : [{
          "system" : "http://loinc.org",
          "code" : "15074-8",
          "display" : "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
        }]
      },
      "subject" : {
        "reference" : "Patient/23"
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "fullUrl" : "http://example.org/fhir/Patient/45",
    "resource" : {
      "resourceType" : "Patient",
      "id" : "45",
      "meta" : {
        "versionId" : "1"
      },
      "text" : {
        "status" : "generated",
        "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p style=\"border: 1px #661aff solid; background-color: #e6e6ff; padding: 10px;\"><b>Name 1</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown</p><hr/></div>"
      },
      "name" : [{
        "text" : "Name 1"
      }]
    }
  },
  {
    "fullUrl" : "http://example.org/fhir/Patient/45",
    "resource" : {
      "resourceType" : "Patient",
      "id" : "45",
      "meta" : {
        "versionId" : "2"
      },
      "text" : {
        "status" : "generated",
        "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p style=\"border: 1px #661aff solid; background-color: #e6e6ff; padding: 10px;\"><b>Name 2</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown</p><hr/></div>"
      },
      "name" : [{
        "text" : "Name 2"
      }]
    }
  },
  {
    "fullUrl" : "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/47",
    "resource" : {
      "resourceType" : "Observation",
      "id" : "47",
      "text" : {
        "status" : "generated",
        "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"47\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;47&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">Patient/45/_history/2</a></p></div>"
      },
      "status" : "final",
      "code" : {
        "coding" : [{
          "system" : "http://loinc.org",
          "code" : "15074-8",
          "display" : "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
        }]
      },
      "subject" : {
        "reference" : "Patient/45/_history/2"
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "fullUrl" : "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/48",
    "resource" : {
      "resourceType" : "Observation",
      "id" : "48",
      "text" : {
        "status" : "generated",
        "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"48\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;48&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <span>id:\u00a01234567</span></p></div>"
      },
      "status" : "final",
      "code" : {
        "coding" : [{
          "system" : "http://loinc.org",
          "code" : "15074-8",
          "display" : "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
        }]
      },
      "subject" : {
        "identifier" : {
          "system" : "http://example.org/ids",
          "value" : "1234567"
        }
      }
    }
  }]
}

Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.