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4.3.1.360 4.4.1.530 Value Set ValueSet http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/medication-codes

  Maturity Level : 1

Clinical Decision Support Responsible Owner: Pharmacy Work Group

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Use Context : Not Intended for Production use Country: World

This is a value set defined by the FHIR project. Summary

• Defining URL: Narrative http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/medication-codes
• XML Name:
• SNOMED CT Medication Codes JSON
• Definition: TTL This value set includes all drug or medicament substance codes and all pharmaceutical/biologic products from SNOMED CT - provided as an exemplar value set.

Copyright: This value set includes content from SNOMED CT, which is copyright © 2002+ International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), and distributed by agreement between IHTSDO and HL7. Implementer use

Official URL : Committee: http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/medication-codes Pharmacy Work Group				OID: 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.360 (for OID based terminology systems) Version : 6.0.0-ballot3
draft as of SNOMED CT is not covered by this agreement. 2025-12-17				Computable Name : SNOMEDCTMedicationCodes
Source Resource Flags :				XML / JSON OID : 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.375

This value set is used in the following places:

• Resource: AdministrableProductDefinition.code (Coding / Example )
• Resource: Medication.code ( (CodeableConcept / Example )
• ActivityDefinition.product[x] Resource: Medication.ingredient.item ( (CodeableReference(Substance|SubstanceDefinition|Medication) / Example )
• CarePlan.activity.detail.product[x] Resource: ClinicalUseDefinition.subject ( (CodeableReference(MedicinalProductDefinition|Medication|ActivityDefinition|PlanDefinition|Device|DeviceDefinition|SubstanceDefinition|NutritionProduct|BiologicallyDerivedProduct) / Example )
• MedicationRequest.medication[x] Resource: ActivityDefinition.product[x] ( (Reference(Medication|MedicinalProductDefinition|Ingredient|SubstanceDefinition)|CodeableConcept / Example )
• MedicationAdministration.medication[x] Resource: MedicationRequest.medication ( (CodeableReference(Medication) / Example )
• MedicationStatement.medication[x] Resource: MedicinalProductDefinition.code ( (Coding / Example )
• MedicationDispense.medication[x] Resource: MedicationAdministration.medication ( (CodeableReference(Medication) / Example )
• Resource: MedicationDispense.medication (CodeableReference(Medication) / Example )

4.3.1.360.1 4.4.1.530.1 Content Logical Definition

This value set includes all drug or medicament substance codes and all pharmaceutical/biologic products from the following code systems: SNOMED CT - provided as an exemplar value set.

Include codes from 4.4.1.530.2 Content Logical Definition http://snomed.info/sct where concept is-a 410942007 (Drug or medicament) Include codes from

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4.3.1.360.2 4.4.1.530.3 Expansion

This expansion generated 19 Apr 2017 17 Dec 2025

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Level Lvl	A few code lists that FHIR defines are hierarchical - each code is assigned a level. In this scheme, some codes For value sets, levels are under other codes, and imply that the mostly used to organize codes for user convenience, but may follow code they are under also applies system hierarchy - see Code System for further information
Source	The source of the definition of the code (when the value set draws in codes defined elsewhere)
Code	The code (used as the code in the resource instance). If the code is in italics, this indicates that the code is not selectable ('Abstract')
Display	The display (used in the display element of a Coding ). If there is no display, implementers should not simply display the code, but map the concept into their application
Definition	An explanation of the meaning of the concept
Comments	Additional notes about how to use the code