Canada Health Infoway

Canada Health Infoway is an independent, federally funded not-for-profit organization that leads the adoption of digital health and pan-Canadian interoperability across Canada's province- and territory-fragmented healthcare system. Infoway stewards the pan-Canadian FHIR interoperability specifications - CA Core+ and the CA Baseline profiles developed with the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) - and operates the Canadian FHIR Registry, the Canadian URI Registry, and a national Terminology Gateway. Its developer-facing API surface, published through the Accelero developer portal, is a HAPI-FHIR R4 (4.0.1) Terminology Service exposing CodeSystem, ValueSet, and ConceptMap resources with $lookup, $expand, $translate, and $validate-code operations, alongside a companion RESTful Terminology API for browsing code systems, subsets, maps, and packages. Infoway is a standards steward and terminology infrastructure operator for the Canadian market rather than a commercial clinical-data platform; the terminology content APIs are gated behind free registration and a session/token login, while the FHIR CapabilityStatement is served anonymously.

Canada Health Infoway publishes 11 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Capability Statement API, Code System API, Codesystems API, and 8 more. Tagged areas include Healthcare, Canada, FHIR, HL7, and Interoperability.

The Canada Health Infoway catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Canada Health Infoway’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, signup flow, engineering blog, and 20 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

41.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

2 APIs

Healthcare Canada FHIR HL7 Interoperability Terminology National Health System Digital Health StandardsCA Core

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 41.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 6.3 / 15

Access Clarity 5.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.7 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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APIs 11

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Canada Health Infoway Capability Statement API

The CapabilityStatement API from Canada Health Infoway — 1 operation(s) for capabilitystatement.

Canada Health Infoway Code System API

The CodeSystem API from Canada Health Infoway — 5 operation(s) for codesystem.

Canada Health Infoway Codesystems API

APIs for accessing code system data

Canada Health Infoway Concept Map API

The ConceptMap API from Canada Health Infoway — 5 operation(s) for conceptmap.

Canada Health Infoway Maps API

APIs for accessing map data

Canada Health Infoway Notification API

APIs for accessing user notifications

Canada Health Infoway Packages API

APIs for accessing package data

Canada Health Infoway Resourcelocations API

APIs for accessing resource location data

Canada Health Infoway Session API

APIs for programmatically logging in

Canada Health Infoway Subsets API

APIs for terminology subsets

Canada Health Infoway Value Set API

The ValueSet API from Canada Health Infoway — 8 operation(s) for valueset.

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Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Terminology FHIR API

OPEN COLLECTION

Terminology API

OPEN COLLECTION

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Canada Health Infoway Notifications Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Canada Health Infoway Authentication

apiKey/http/session · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Canada Health Infoway Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Canada Health Infoway Agentic Access

60 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Webhooks

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

About

About

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: canada-health-infoway
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/canada-health-infoway/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Canada Health Infoway
kind: company
description: Canada Health Infoway is an independent, federally funded not-for-profit organization that leads the adoption
  of digital health and pan-Canadian interoperability across Canada's province- and territory-fragmented healthcare system.
  Infoway stewards the pan-Canadian FHIR interoperability specifications - CA Core+ and the CA Baseline profiles developed
  with the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) - and operates the Canadian FHIR Registry, the Canadian URI Registry,
  and a national Terminology Gateway. Its developer-facing API surface, published through the Accelero developer portal, is
  a HAPI-FHIR R4 (4.0.1) Terminology Service exposing CodeSystem, ValueSet, and ConceptMap resources with $lookup, $expand,
  $translate, and $validate-code operations, alongside a companion RESTful Terminology API for browsing code systems, subsets,
  maps, and packages. Infoway is a standards steward and terminology infrastructure operator for the Canadian market rather
  than a commercial clinical-data platform; the terminology content APIs are gated behind free registration and a session/token
  login, while the FHIR CapabilityStatement is served anonymously.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: registration
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free registration · gated terminology content
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - review
  generated: '2026-07-24'
  method: manual
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Healthcare
- Canada
- FHIR
- HL7
- Interoperability
- Terminology
- National Health System
- Digital Health
- Standards
- CA Core
created: '2026-07-24'
modified: '2026-07-24'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: canada-health-infoway:canada-health-infoway-capabilitystatement-api
  name: Canada Health Infoway Capability Statement API
  description: The CapabilityStatement API from Canada Health Infoway — 1 operation(s) for capabilitystatement.
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - CapabilityStatement
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/canada-health-infoway-capabilitystatement-api-openapi.yml
  - type: CapabilityStatement
    url: fhir/infoway-terminology-gateway-capabilitystatement.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
- aid: canada-health-infoway:canada-health-infoway-codesystem-api
  name: Canada Health Infoway Code System API
  description: The CodeSystem API from Canada Health Infoway — 5 operation(s) for codesystem.
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - CodeSystem
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/canada-health-infoway-codesystem-api-openapi.yml
  - type: CapabilityStatement
    url: fhir/infoway-terminology-gateway-capabilitystatement.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
- aid: canada-health-infoway:canada-health-infoway-codesystems-api
  name: Canada Health Infoway Codesystems API
  description: APIs for accessing code system data
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - code-systems
  tags_raw:
  - codesystems
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/canada-health-infoway-codesystems-api-openapi.yml
  - type: CapabilityStatement
    url: fhir/infoway-terminology-gateway-capabilitystatement.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
- aid: canada-health-infoway:canada-health-infoway-conceptmap-api
  name: Canada Health Infoway Concept Map API
  description: The ConceptMap API from Canada Health Infoway — 5 operation(s) for conceptmap.
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - ConceptMap
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/canada-health-infoway-conceptmap-api-openapi.yml
  - type: CapabilityStatement
    url: fhir/infoway-terminology-gateway-capabilitystatement.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
- aid: canada-health-infoway:canada-health-infoway-maps-api
  name: Canada Health Infoway Maps API
  description: APIs for accessing map data
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - Maps
  tags_raw:
  - maps
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/canada-health-infoway-maps-api-openapi.yml
  - type: CapabilityStatement
    url: fhir/infoway-terminology-gateway-capabilitystatement.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
- aid: canada-health-infoway:canada-health-infoway-notification-api
  name: Canada Health Infoway Notification API
  description: APIs for accessing user notifications
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - Notification
  tags_raw:
  - notification
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/canada-health-infoway-notification-api-openapi.yml
  - type: CapabilityStatement
    url: fhir/infoway-terminology-gateway-capabilitystatement.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
- aid: canada-health-infoway:canada-health-infoway-packages-api
  name: Canada Health Infoway Packages API
  description: APIs for accessing package data
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - Packages
  tags_raw:
  - packages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/canada-health-infoway-packages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: CapabilityStatement
    url: fhir/infoway-terminology-gateway-capabilitystatement.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
- aid: canada-health-infoway:canada-health-infoway-resourcelocations-api
  name: Canada Health Infoway Resourcelocations API
  description: APIs for accessing resource location data
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - Resource Locations
  tags_raw:
  - resourcelocations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/canada-health-infoway-resourcelocations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: CapabilityStatement
    url: fhir/infoway-terminology-gateway-capabilitystatement.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
- aid: canada-health-infoway:canada-health-infoway-session-api
  name: Canada Health Infoway Session API
  description: APIs for programmatically logging in
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - Session
  tags_raw:
  - session
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/canada-health-infoway-session-api-openapi.yml
  - type: CapabilityStatement
    url: fhir/infoway-terminology-gateway-capabilitystatement.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
- aid: canada-health-infoway:canada-health-infoway-subsets-api
  name: Canada Health Infoway Subsets API
  description: APIs for terminology subsets
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - subsets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/canada-health-infoway-subsets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: CapabilityStatement
    url: fhir/infoway-terminology-gateway-capabilitystatement.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
- aid: canada-health-infoway:canada-health-infoway-valueset-api
  name: Canada Health Infoway Value Set API
  description: The ValueSet API from Canada Health Infoway — 8 operation(s) for valueset.
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - ValueSet
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/canada-health-infoway-valueset-api-openapi.yml
  - type: CapabilityStatement
    url: fhir/infoway-terminology-gateway-capabilitystatement.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/canada-health-infoway-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/canada-health-infoway-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/canada-health-infoway-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/canada-health-infoway-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/canada-health-infoway-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/canada-health-infoway-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/canada-health-infoway-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/canada-health-infoway-data-model.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/canada-health-infoway-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/canada-health-infoway-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/canada-health-infoway-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  name: FHIR Terminology Service enhancements
  url: overlays/canada-health-infoway-fhir-terminology-service-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  name: RESTful Terminology Service enhancements
  url: overlays/canada-health-infoway-terminology-service-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/canada-health-infoway-notifications-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://ic.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/about/tou?title=8_UserReferencesAndSupports/Terms_And_License_Agreements
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/privacy-policy
- type: Website
  url: https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/what-we-do/connected-care/digital-health-standards
- type: APIReference
  url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
- type: SignUp
  url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/register
- type: Login
  url: https://auth-users.infoway-inforoute.ca/auth/UI/Login
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/blog
- type: About
  url: https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/about-us
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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