What

Enables you to pull out all medications sent from any source.

Prerequisites

• You must have an identifier (national id or PKB public id) for the patient.

• You must have access to the data in the patient’s PKB record.

  • The patient’s PKB record must be in your PKB organisation.

  • You must have access to the relevant privacy labels within the patient’s PKB record.

How to

• Follow the instructions here for obtaining a token for the Aggregated FHIR endpoint.

  • FHIR client id: issued by PKB once development dates have been agreed

  • FHIR client secret: issued by PKB once development dates have been agreed

  • Grant_type: client_credentials

  • Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

  • Endpoint

• Call the base URL with the MedicationStatement resource, using the patient’s national id or PKB public id (with the corresponding system) in the subject search paramter.

  • https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/search.html

  • National ID Example: https://aggregated-fhir.sandbox.patientsknowbest.com/fhir/MedicationStatement?subject:Patient.identifier=https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number%7C9996650251

  • Public ID Example: https://aggregated-fhir.sandbox.patientsknowbest.com/fhir/MedicationStatement?subject:Patient.identifier=http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/id/public-id%7C8cfd31f2-b027-4aa5-ae27-0df7489434eb

• A FHIR bundle is returned to you in json format with all of the patient’s medications that are in their PKB record.

Useful links

• Further information on connectivity and endpoints.

• PKB uses the MedicationStatement FHIR resource. You can read the full capability statement here.

• Read more about how PKB maps any non-FHIR medication data (HL7 or UI entered) to FHIR.