# NCTS FHIR Terminology Server

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/ncts-fhir-terminology-server/  
**Provider:** Australian Digital Health Agency — https://apis.io/providers/australian-digital-health-agency/  
**Base URL:** https://api.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/R4/fhir  
**Documentation:** https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/implementing-in-software/terminology-as-a-service/ncts-apis/

NCTS FHIR Terminology Server is one of 6 APIs that [Australian Digital Health Agency](https://apis.io/providers/australian-digital-health-agency/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include FHIR, Terminology, SNOMED CT, and SMART on FHIR. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **CapabilityStatement** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/australian-digital-health-agency/refs/heads/main/fhir/ncts-terminology-server-capabilitystatement.json
- **SmartConfiguration** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/australian-digital-health-agency/refs/heads/main/fhir/ncts-terminology-server-smart-configuration.json
- **Documentation** — https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/implementing-in-software/terminology-as-a-service/ncts-apis/
- **APIReference** — https://api.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/R4/fhir/metadata

## Other Australian Digital Health Agency APIs (5)

- [My Health Record FHIR Gateway (B2B)](https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/my-health-record-fhir-gateway/)
- [My Health Record FHIR Mobile Gateway](https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/my-health-record-fhir-mobile-gateway/)
- [NCTS National Syndication Server](https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/ncts-syndication-server/)
- [Electronic Prescribing](https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/electronic-prescribing/)
- [Healthcare Identifiers (HI) Service](https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/healthcare-identifiers-service/)

## Tags

FHIR, Terminology, SNOMED CT, SMART on FHIR

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