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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 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Infoway FHIR Terminology Service API and Infoway Terminology Service API. 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.

43.8/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
2 APIs 1 MCP Servers
HealthcareCanadaFHIRHL7InteroperabilityTerminologyNational Health SystemDigital HealthStandardsCA Core

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 43.8/100 · developing
Contract Quality 11.2 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 7.2 / 17
Access Clarity 5.8 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11
Contract Governance 3.1 / 10
Discoverability 6.5 / 9
Regulatory Posture 5.8 / 15
Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 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
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APIs 2

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

Infoway FHIR Terminology Service API

HL7 FHIR R4 (4.0.1) terminology service from Canada Health Infoway's Terminology Gateway (HAPI FHIR), exposing CodeSystem, ValueSet, ConceptMap, and OperationDefinition resource...

Infoway Terminology Service API

RESTful (non-FHIR) terminology API from Canada Health Infoway for browsing and downloading Canadian terminology content - code systems, subsets (value sets), maps, resource loca...

Open Collections 2

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

Terminology FHIR API

OPEN COLLECTION

Terminology API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Canada Health Infoway MCP Server

Candidate MCP server derived from the Terminology Gateway OpenAPI operations. Canada Health Infoway does not publish an official hosted MCP server; this is a proposed tool surfa...

MCP SERVER

Event Specifications 1

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

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

60 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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.
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:infoway-fhir-terminology-service-api
  name: Infoway FHIR Terminology Service API
  description: HL7 FHIR R4 (4.0.1) terminology service from Canada Health Infoway's Terminology Gateway (HAPI FHIR), exposing
    CodeSystem, ValueSet, ConceptMap, and OperationDefinition resources with read/vread/history/search plus the $lookup, $expand,
    $translate, and $validate-code terminology operations. A live FHIR CapabilityStatement is served at the base URL's /metadata
    endpoint.
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/fhir-apidocs/v1/swagger-ui
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/v1
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Terminology
  - Healthcare
  - Interoperability
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/infoway-fhir-terminology-service-api-openapi.json
  - 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
- aid: canada-health-infoway:infoway-terminology-service-api
  name: Infoway Terminology Service API
  description: RESTful (non-FHIR) terminology API from Canada Health Infoway for browsing and downloading Canadian terminology
    content - code systems, subsets (value sets), maps, resource locations, and packages - with delta/versioning, session
    login (basic credentials, SSO token, or JWT), and webhook-style notification subscriptions.
  humanURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
  baseURL: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/rest/v1
  tags:
  - Terminology
  - Healthcare
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/infoway-terminology-service-api-openapi.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://termapi.infoway-inforoute.ca/schema/v1/swaggerui/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://accelero.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/tools/developer-tools/terminology-service-api
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: MCPServer
  url: mcp/canada-health-infoway-mcp.yml
- 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