Defining a Medication Schedule in FHIR DSTU2

Question

We are looking to define a Medication Schedule using the FHIR Medicatation Prescription resource. Data model aside the schedule is as follows:

• Drug / Medication
• Start Date
• End Date
• Administration times
• Site / Route

For example

Amoxicillin 50mg - Orally - From 01/06/2015 to 05/06/2015 3 times a day : 09.00 / 13.00 / 18.00

Does anybody know if this is possible with the existing DSTU2 specification?

Cheers

Answer 1

Yes, this is possible.
This is possible but only in a laborious way.

You want this to be a MedicationPrescription. Ideally this would be a dosageInstruction.dosageTiming Timing property, but this element can not (yet?) specify specific Times during a day. You will have to create one dosageInstruction.scheduledDateTime for every occurrence of your prescription.

Answer 2

The Timing data type is intended to support this. It allows you to say "3 times per day" and also enumerate the specific times.

Answer 3

This object is now MedicationOrder

Please see answers / comments here:

MedicationOrder for Times of day

This is hopefully coming soon