Implementing FHIR Authentication
Patients and Providers can access SMART (Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies) applications like Apple’s Health app or open Electronic Health Record (EHR) software through FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). This allows for the sharing of health data across multiple platforms via an open standard. For mobile applications, accessing health data for read and/or write access requires being registered with the particular FHIR instance (e.g. Cerner) and requesting the correct scopes. Once authorization has been granted, you use JSON Web Tokens to call specific endpoints for data....