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