Binary

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A resource that represents the data of a single raw artifact as digital content accessible in its native format. A Binary resource can contain any content, whether text, image, pdf, zip archive, etc.

Binary is a FHIR R4 Foundation resource — pure binary content defined by a format other than fhir. It defines 8 elements and supports 9 search parameters, and is referenced from 2 elements across other resources.

Official spec

Path	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
Binary	0..*	—	Pure binary content defined by a format other than FHIR
.idΣ	0..1	String	Logical id of this artifact
.metaΣ	0..1	Meta	Metadata about the resource
.implicitRules?!Σ	0..1	uri	A set of rules under which this content was created
.language	0..1	code	Language of the resource content Bindinglanguages(preferred)
.contentTypeΣ	1..1	code	MimeType of the binary content Bindingmimetypes(required)
.securityContextΣ	0..1	Reference(Resource)	Identifies another resource to use as proxy when enforcing access control
.data	0..1	base64Binary	The actual content

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