# Photon

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/photon/  
**Website:** https://photonhealth.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Photon Health is a United States prescription-infrastructure and e-prescribing (eRx) platform that lets digital-health companies embed prescribing, pharmacy selection, prescription routing, and fulfillment tracking into their clinical applications. Rather than an HL7 FHIR interface, Photon exposes a native GraphQL Clinical API - a single POST /graphql endpoint covering patients, prescriptions, orders, pharmacies, the medication/treatment catalog, drug-drug and drug-allergy screening, webhooks, and organization/user administration - plus a Patient Benefits API for pharmacy benefit checks and coverage. It also ships Photon Elements, prebuilt WebComponent UI for prescribing. The API is secured with OAuth2 client-credentials (Auth0) using machine-to-machine and user access tokens and prescription/order scopes; a sandbox runs on neutron.health. Photon serves prescribers and pharmacy-innovation partners including Amazon Pharmacy, Sesame, WeightWatchers, and Found.

## Kin Score — 54.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: rising (+5.7 from 48.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 62.3 |
| Governance | 11.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 69.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 58.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 60.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | yes |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (3)

- **Photon Clinical API** — Photon's native GraphQL Clinical API for managing patients, prescriptions, orders, pharmacies, the treatment/medication catalog, drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction screening...
- **Photon Patient Benefits API** — Photon's GraphQL Patient Benefits API for managing patient benefits and enabling pharmacy benefit checks (coverage options, copay, and formulary) during the prescribing workflow...
- **Photon Website API** — Photon's public website API, covering the onboarding funnel and newsletter signup: create or resume an onboarding session, save path-specific onboarding answers, submit a comple...

## MCP servers (1)

- **photon-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Photon Agentic Access** — 0 operations

## Security (3)

- **Photon Authentication** — oauth2/http · 2 schemes
- **Photon Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Photon Trust Center** — SOC 2, HIPAA

## Plans (1)

- **Photon Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Healthcare, United States, e-Prescribing, Pharmacy, Prescription Routing, GraphQL, Clinical API, Digital Health, Benefit Check, OAuth2

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/photon/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.