Question: Using #FHIR Medication Resources
Oct 7, 2014**Question: **
To what extent should FHIR Medication resources be reused? Should they be reused across multiple patients’ records?
Answer:
The general answer is that they should re-used as much as possible. The general expectation is that either a system has a formulary or drug dictionary, in which case there would be one medication resource per entry, and these commonly re-usable medications would be used across many patients, or that you are prescribing by some external code. In the second case, you wouldn’t re-use the medication resource at all.
Note- the resource design will change in the near future to make the second case easier - just put the code on the prescription directly, with no need for the medication resource.