Best Practice Software
Best Practice Software is an Australian clinical and practice-management software company, headquartered in Bundaberg, Queensland, and one half of the Australian GP-software duopoly (alongside MedicalDirector). Its flagship products - Bp Premier (general practice), Bp VIP.net (specialist and allied), and Bp Allied - run in thousands of Australian medical practices. Best Practice's programmatic surface is delivered through Halo Connect (Halo Cloud / Halo Link), a FHIR-based integration platform that lets approved partners query practice data over a modern API instead of the legacy SQL database. The FHIR API for Bp Premier is built to the AU Base 4.1.0 implementation guide, falling back to HL7 FHIR R4 (4.0.1), and exposes resources such as Patient, Appointment, Slot (Find Free Slots) and a Patient $summary document. Halo Cloud also offers SQL Passthrough and Registered Queries for structured practice data. Access is gated - integrators require a Halo Cloud subscription plus per-practice pairing and PMS-managed database credentials, authenticated with an Azure API Management subscription key (desktop apps additionally use a bearer JWT and device id). This is not a self-serve public API; it is a partner-onboarded, standards-aligned interoperability layer for the Australian primary-care market.
Best Practice Software publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including FHIR API, Registered Queries API, Sites API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Healthcare, Australia, Electronic Health Records, FHIR, and HL7.
The Best Practice Software catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Best Practice Software’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, sandbox, and 22 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Standards implemented 2
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 5
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Best Practice Software FHIR API
Query practice data using FHIR resources.
Best Practice Software Registered Queries API
The Registered Queries API from Best Practice Software — 6 operation(s) for registered queries.
Best Practice Software Sites API
Endpoints for practice onboarding and site metadata.
Best Practice Software SQL Passthrough API
Send SQL queries to practices as immediate, async or registered queries. **Immediate queries** are small, time-sensitive queries that return a result in seconds. Response size i...
Best Practice Software Tokens API
Obtain authorization tokens for desktop applications to authenticate API requests.
Open Collections 2
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Halo Cloud API for Desktop Applications
OPEN COLLECTIONHalo Cloud API for Integrators
OPEN COLLECTIONAgent Skills 3
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
FHIR patient lookup and summary (Bp Premier)
AGENT SKILLService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
Event Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Best Practice Webhooks
ASYNCAPISpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Best Practice Software API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 2
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Best Practice Desktop Overlay
DERIVEDBest Practice Integrator Overlay
DERIVEDSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Best Practice Software API — frequently asked questions
Does Best Practice Software have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Best Practice Software, including Best Practice Software FHIR API, Best Practice Software Registered Queries API and Best Practice Software Sites API, and 2 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Best Practice Software API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Best Practice Software, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Best Practice Software API?
Best Practice Software uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Best Practice Authentication.
Is the Best Practice Software API ready for AI agents?
Best Practice Software has a Kin Score of 49.6 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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