$meta-delete

Introduction

The $meta-delete operation removes profile, tag, and security labels from a resource's metadata. See http://hl7.org/fhir/resource-operation-meta-delete.html for the official documentation.

POST /fhir/<resourceType>/<id>/$meta-delete

The operation accepts a Parameters resource containing the metadata to remove:

By FHIR spec it receives a Parameters resource as a body:

POST /fhir/<resourceType>/<id>/$meta-delete

resourceType: Parameters
parameter:
  - name: meta
    valueMeta:
      profile:
        - <profile.url>
      security:
        - system: <system.url>
          code: <code>
          display: <displayText>
      tag:
        - system: <system.url>
          code: <code>
          display: <displayText>

The identity of a tag or security label is based on the combination of system and code, other fields are ignored. For profile entries, matching is based on the full URL. It is not an error if these tag, profile, and security labels do not exist.

Returned value is the current resource metadata.

Examples

Removing metadata

Removing tag metadata from a Patient.

# Request:
POST /fhir/Patient/pt-1/$meta-delete
content-type: text/yaml
accept: text/yaml

resourceType: Parameters
parameter:
  - name: meta
    valueMeta:
      tag:
        - system: http://example.org/codes/tags
          code: current
          display: Current Inpatient

Response

HTTP 200 OK

resourceType: Parameters
parameter:
  - name: return
    valueMeta:
      tag:
        - code: record-lost
          system: http://example.org/codes/tags
          display: Patient File2 Lost
      profile:
        - http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/daf-patient
        - http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/uslab-patient
      security:
        - code: EMP
          system: http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/ActCode
          display: employee information sensitivity
      lastUpdated: '2025-10-27T10:28:15.304548Z'
      versionId: '342'

Removing remaining tags, profiles, and security labels from a Patient.

# Request:
POST /fhir/Patient/pt-1/$meta-delete
content-type: text/yaml
accept: text/yaml

resourceType: Parameters
parameter:
  - name: meta
    valueMeta:
      tag:
        - code: record-lost
          system: http://example.org/codes/tags
          display: Patient File2 Lost
      profile:
        - http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/daf-patient
        - http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/uslab-patient
      security:
        - code: EMP
          system: http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/ActCode
          display: employee information sensitivity

Response

HTTP 200 OK

resourceType: Parameters
parameter:
  - name: return
    valueMeta:
      lastUpdated: '2025-10-27T10:31:10.043131Z'
      versionId: '344'