SMART Health IT SMART App Launch API

OAuth 2.0 authorization endpoints on the SMART App Launcher.

OpenAPI Specification

smarthealthit-smart-app-launch-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: SMART Health IT Sandbox FHIR APIs Bulk Data SMART App Launch API
  description: Public, free sandbox APIs operated by SMART Health IT (Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School) for building and testing SMART on FHIR apps. Three surfaces are described here. (1) The open FHIR R4 sandbox at https://r4.smarthealthit.org - synthetic patient records served over plain FHIR REST with no authentication (DSTU2 and STU3 variants exist at r2/r3.smarthealthit.org). (2) The SMART App Launcher's protected FHIR R4 proxy at https://launch.smarthealthit.org/v/r4/fhir, which requires an OAuth 2.0 access token obtained through the HL7 SMART App Launch flow at /v/r4/auth/authorize and /v/r4/auth/token (no client registration needed). (3) The reference Bulk Data server at https://bulk-data.smarthealthit.org/fhir, which implements FHIR Bulk Data $export with SMART Backend Services JWT authentication. All data is synthetic; these servers are for development and testing, never real PHI.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: SMART Health IT
    url: https://smarthealthit.org
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://github.com/smart-on-fhir/smart-launcher-v2/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://r4.smarthealthit.org
  description: Open FHIR R4 sandbox (no authentication required)
- url: https://launch.smarthealthit.org/v/r4/fhir
  description: SMART App Launcher protected FHIR R4 proxy (SMART App Launch OAuth 2.0)
- url: https://bulk-data.smarthealthit.org/fhir
  description: Reference Bulk Data server (SMART Backend Services authentication)
security:
- smartOnFhir: []
- {}
tags:
- name: SMART App Launch
  description: OAuth 2.0 authorization endpoints on the SMART App Launcher.
paths:
  /auth/authorize:
    servers:
    - url: https://launch.smarthealthit.org/v/r4
      description: SMART App Launcher R4 base (auth endpoints are siblings of /fhir)
    get:
      operationId: smartAuthorize
      tags:
      - SMART App Launch
      summary: SMART App Launch authorization endpoint (launcher only)
      description: OAuth 2.0 authorization endpoint on the SMART App Launcher, located at https://launch.smarthealthit.org/v/r4/auth/authorize (a sibling of the /fhir base, so this path carries its own server). Initiates the SMART App Launch authorization code flow with PKCE, accepting standard OAuth parameters plus SMART launch context (launch, aud/aud-validated FHIR base, and clinical scopes such as patient/*.read, launch/patient, openid, and fhirUser). No client registration is required on the sandbox.
      security: []
      parameters:
      - name: response_type
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - code
      - name: client_id
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: redirect_uri
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: scope
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Space-separated SMART scopes, for example "launch/patient patient/*.read openid fhirUser".
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: state
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: aud
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The FHIR base URL the token will be used against.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '302':
          description: Redirects back to the app's redirect_uri with an authorization code.
  /auth/token:
    servers:
    - url: https://launch.smarthealthit.org/v/r4
      description: SMART App Launcher R4 base (auth endpoints are siblings of /fhir)
    post:
      operationId: smartToken
      tags:
      - SMART App Launch
      summary: SMART App Launch token endpoint (launcher only)
      description: OAuth 2.0 token endpoint on the SMART App Launcher, located at https://launch.smarthealthit.org/v/r4/auth/token. Exchanges an authorization code (with PKCE verifier) for an access token carrying SMART launch context (patient, encounter, fhirUser), or accepts a SMART Backend Services client_credentials grant with a signed JWT client assertion.
      security: []
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                grant_type:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - authorization_code
                  - client_credentials
                  - refresh_token
                code:
                  type: string
                redirect_uri:
                  type: string
                code_verifier:
                  type: string
                client_assertion_type:
                  type: string
                client_assertion:
                  type: string
                scope:
                  type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: An access token response with SMART context parameters.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  access_token:
                    type: string
                  token_type:
                    type: string
                  expires_in:
                    type: integer
                  scope:
                    type: string
                  patient:
                    type: string
                    description: Patient id in context, when launch/patient was granted.
                  encounter:
                    type: string
                  id_token:
                    type: string
components:
  securitySchemes:
    smartOnFhir:
      type: oauth2
      description: HL7 SMART App Launch OAuth 2.0 profile, used by the launcher's protected FHIR proxy. The open r4.smarthealthit.org sandbox requires no authentication; the Bulk Data server uses SMART Backend Services (client_credentials with a signed JWT assertion).
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://launch.smarthealthit.org/v/r4/auth/authorize
          tokenUrl: https://launch.smarthealthit.org/v/r4/auth/token
          scopes:
            openid: OpenID Connect identity.
            fhirUser: Identity of the launching user as a FHIR resource.
            launch/patient: Request a patient in context at launch.
            patient/*.read: Read all resources for the patient in context.
            user/*.read: Read all resources the user can access.
            system/*.read: Backend services system-level read access.
        clientCredentials:
          tokenUrl: https://launch.smarthealthit.org/v/r4/auth/token
          scopes:
            system/*.read: Backend services system-level read access.
externalDocs:
  description: SMART on FHIR developer documentation
  url: https://docs.smarthealthit.org