# SMART Health Cards Framework

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/smarthealthit/smarthealthit-health-cards-framework/  
**Provider:** SMART Health IT — https://apis.io/providers/smarthealthit/  
**Base URL:** https://spec.smarthealth.cards  
**Documentation:** https://smarthealth.cards

SMART Health Cards Framework is one of 6 APIs that [SMART Health IT](https://apis.io/providers/smarthealthit/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Health Cards, Verifiable Credentials, Immunization Records, and Health Links. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Specification for issuing and verifying tamper-evident clinical records - vaccination history, lab results, and insurance cards - as signed JWS payloads carried in QR codes or files. Issuers expose the FHIR $health-cards-issue operation; verifiers validate signatures against published issuer keys. SMART Health Links extend the model to shareable links over richer clinical data. Maintained with the Verifiable Clinical Information (VCI) coalition.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://spec.smarthealth.cards/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/smarthealthit/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other SMART Health IT APIs (5)

- [SMART Health IT Bulk Data API](https://apis.io/apis/smarthealthit/smarthealthit-bulk-data-api/)
- [SMART Health IT Clinical Records API](https://apis.io/apis/smarthealthit/smarthealthit-clinical-records-api/)
- [SMART Health IT Conformance API](https://apis.io/apis/smarthealthit/smarthealthit-conformance-api/)
- [SMART Health IT Patients API](https://apis.io/apis/smarthealthit/smarthealthit-patients-api/)
- [SMART Health IT SMART App Launch API](https://apis.io/apis/smarthealthit/smarthealthit-smart-app-launch-api/)

## Tags

Health Cards, Verifiable Credentials, Immunization Records, Health Links

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