# Fasten Connect API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/fasten-connect/  
**Provider:** Fasten Health — https://apis.io/providers/fasten-health/  
**Base URL:** https://api.connect.fastenhealth.com/v1  
**Documentation:** https://docs.connect.fastenhealth.com/api-reference/introduction

Fasten Connect API is one of 11 APIs that [Fasten Health](https://apis.io/providers/fasten-health/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include FHIR, Healthcare Connectivity, EHI Export, TEFCA, and REST. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, an API reference, authentication docs, and a getting-started guide.

Fasten Connect is the commercial REST + FHIR API for retrieving patient clinical records from 50,000+ U.S. healthcare systems. The API surface is documented in OpenAPI 1.0.11 at api.connect.fastenhealth.com/v1 and uses HTTP Basic authentication with public/private key pairs prefixed public_test_/private_test_ or public_live_/private_live_. Capabilities include catalog discovery (search brands, fetch organization metadata, brand logos, bulk catalog export), patient-to-provider connection orchestration via the /bridge/connect and /bridge/reconnect endpoints, organization-connection status checks, bulk EHI (Electronic Health Information) export requests with task polling and signed downloads, TEFCA synthetic-patient revocation for testing, and a support-ticket endpoint.

## Machine-readable artifacts (10)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.connect.fastenhealth.com/api-reference/introduction
- **OpenAPI** — https://docs.connect.fastenhealth.com/api-reference/openapi.yaml
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fasten-health/refs/heads/main/openapi/fasten-health-connect-openapi-original.yml
- **Overlay** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fasten-health/refs/heads/main/overlays/fasten-health-connect-overlay.yaml
- **APIReference** — https://docs.connect.fastenhealth.com/api-reference/introduction
- **Authentication** — https://docs.connect.fastenhealth.com/api-reference/authentication
- **GettingStarted** — https://docs.connect.fastenhealth.com/quickstart
- **Signup** — https://portal.fastenhealth.com
- **Sandbox** — https://docs.connect.fastenhealth.com/guides/test-data
- **TestCredentials** — https://docs.connect.fastenhealth.com/guides/test-patient-credentials

## Other Fasten Health APIs (10)

- [Fasten OnPrem](https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/fasten-onprem/)
- [Fasten Connect Webhooks](https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/fasten-connect-webhooks/)
- [Fasten Stitch Client SDKs](https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/fasten-stitch/)
- [Fasten Identity Proofing & TEFCA IAS](https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/fasten-identity-proofing/)
- [gofhir-models](https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/gofhir-models/)
- [fhir-react](https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/fhir-react/)
- [Fasten Toolbox](https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/fasten-toolbox/)
- [Folio](https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/folio/)
- [Fasten Connect Quickstart Sample](https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/fasten-connect-quickstart/)
- [Fasten Answers AI](https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/fasten-answers-ai/)

## Tags

FHIR, Healthcare Connectivity, EHI Export, TEFCA, REST, Patient Records

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/fasten-health/fasten-connect/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/fasten-health/.