Australian Digital Health Agency

NCTS FHIR Terminology Server

The National Clinical Terminology Service (NCTS) FHIR terminology server, operated by ADHA on CSIRO Ontoserver. A FHIR R4 (4.0.1) terminology service supporting CodeSystem, ValueSet, ConceptMap, OperationDefinition and StructureDefinition resources with $expand, $lookup, $validate-code, $translate and $closure operations over SNOMED CT-AU, AMT and LOINC. Authenticated with SMART-on-FHIR OAuth2. A live FHIR CapabilityStatement was harvested from the /metadata endpoint.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/implementing-in-software/terminology-as-a-service/ncts-apis/
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APIReference
https://api.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/R4/fhir/metadata

Other Resources

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CapabilityStatement
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/australian-digital-health-agency/refs/heads/main/fhir/ncts-terminology-server-capabilitystatement.json
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SmartConfiguration
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/australian-digital-health-agency/refs/heads/main/fhir/ncts-terminology-server-smart-configuration.json

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: australian-digital-health-agency:ncts-fhir-terminology-server
name: NCTS FHIR Terminology Server
description: The National Clinical Terminology Service (NCTS) FHIR terminology server, operated by ADHA
  on CSIRO Ontoserver. A FHIR R4 (4.0.1) terminology service supporting CodeSystem, ValueSet, ConceptMap,
  OperationDefinition and StructureDefinition resources with $expand, $lookup, $validate-code, $translate
  and $closure operations over SNOMED CT-AU, AMT and LOINC. Authenticated with SMART-on-FHIR OAuth2. A
  live FHIR CapabilityStatement was harvested from the /metadata endpoint.
humanURL: https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/implementing-in-software/terminology-as-a-service/ncts-apis/
baseURL: https://api.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/R4/fhir
tags:
- FHIR
- Terminology
- SNOMED CT
- SMART on FHIR
properties:
- type: CapabilityStatement
  url: fhir/ncts-terminology-server-capabilitystatement.json
- type: SmartConfiguration
  url: fhir/ncts-terminology-server-smart-configuration.json
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/implementing-in-software/terminology-as-a-service/ncts-apis/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/R4/fhir/metadata