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Penn Medicine Fhir Observation Example

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Penn Medicine Fhir Observation Example is an example object payload from Penn Medicine, with 9 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

resourceTypeidmetastatuscategorycodesubjecteffectiveDateTimecomponent

Example Payload

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{
  "resourceType": "Observation",
  "id": "example-bp",
  "meta": {
    "profile": [
      "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-blood-pressure|6.1.0"
    ],
    "source": "https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/api/FHIR/R4"
  },
  "status": "final",
  "category": [
    {
      "coding": [
        {
          "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category",
          "code": "vital-signs",
          "display": "Vital Signs"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "code": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://loinc.org",
        "code": "85354-9",
        "display": "Blood pressure panel"
      }
    ]
  },
  "subject": {
    "reference": "Patient/example"
  },
  "effectiveDateTime": "2026-05-10T09:30:00-04:00",
  "component": [
    {
      "code": {
        "coding": [
          {
            "system": "http://loinc.org",
            "code": "8480-6",
            "display": "Systolic blood pressure"
          }
        ]
      },
      "valueQuantity": {
        "value": 122,
        "unit": "mmHg",
        "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
        "code": "mm[Hg]"
      }
    },
    {
      "code": {
        "coding": [
          {
            "system": "http://loinc.org",
            "code": "8462-4",
            "display": "Diastolic blood pressure"
          }
        ]
      },
      "valueQuantity": {
        "value": 78,
        "unit": "mmHg",
        "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
        "code": "mm[Hg]"
      }
    }
  ]
}