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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><b>Anonymous Patient</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown ( id: 1234567)</p></div>"
},
"identifier": [
{
"system": "http://example.org/ids",
"value": "1234567"
}
]
}
},
{
"fullUrl": "urn:uuid:04121321-4af5-424c-a0e1-ed3aab1c349d",
"resource": {
"resourceType": "Patient",
"text": {
"status": "generated",
"div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Anonymous Patient</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown</p></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</b></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 "123" </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=\"todo.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</b></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 "124" </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=\"todo.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"
}
"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/12",
"resource": {
"resourceType": "Observation",
"id": "12",
"text": {
"status": "generated",
"div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></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 "12" </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=\"todo.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/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 "123" </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/14",
"resource": {
"resourceType": "Observation",
"id": "14",
"text": {
"status": "generated",
"div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></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 "14" </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=\"todo.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/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 "124" </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-2/Observation/14",
"resource": {
"resourceType": "Observation",
"id": "14",
"text": {
"status": "generated",
"div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></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 "14" </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=\"todo.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/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 "12" </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/Patient/45",
"resource": {
"resourceType": "Patient",
"id": "45",
"meta": {
"versionId": "1"
},
"text": {
"status": "generated",
"div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Name 1</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown</p></div>"
},
"name": [
{
"text": "Name 1"
}
]
}
},
{
"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 "14" </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/Patient/45",
"resource": {
"resourceType": "Patient",
"id": "45",
"meta": {
"versionId": "2"
},
"text": {
"status": "generated",
"div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Name 2</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown</p></div>"
},
"name": [
{
"text": "Name 2"
}
]
}
},
{
"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 "14" </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/47",
"resource": {
"resourceType": "Observation",
"id": "47",
"text": {
"status": "generated",
"div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></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 "47" </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=\"todo.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/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 "47" </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</b></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 "48" </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/></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"
}
}
},
{
"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 "48" </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/></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.
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