Provenance resource (FHIR R4)

Provenance is the FHIR R4 resource for provenance of a resource is a record that describes entities and processes involved in producing and delivering or otherwise influencing that resource.

Example

{
  "resourceType": "Provenance",
  "id": "provenance-991806ef4eb7856a21ac0db8ee6e1856",
  "target": [
    {
      "reference": "Patient/patient-L46A6EIB9J"
    }
  ],
  "recorded": "2026-07-01T12:00:00Z",
  "activity": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-DataOperation",
        "code": "CREATE",
        "display": "create"
      }
    ]
  },
  "agent": [
    {
      "type": {
        "coding": [
          {
            "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/provenance-participant-type",
            "code": "author",
            "display": "Author"
          }
        ]
      },
      "who": {
        "display": "Registration Clerk"
      },
      "onBehalfOf": {
        "display": "Synthetic Health Network"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Generated by the Pidgeon engine: pidgeon generate Provenance --seed 20260722.

Validation context

• strict pidgeon validate grades a Provenance instance against the base R4 structure definition: missing required elements raise REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING and cardinality violations raise CARDINALITY_MIN or CARDINALITY_MAX.(REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING)
• strict Profile validation grades the same instance against an installed IG profile: profile cardinality findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY and terminology binding findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-BINDING.(FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY)