SMART on FHIR support for AWS HealthLake - AWS HealthLake

SMART on FHIR support for AWS HealthLake

A Substitutable Medical Applications and Reusable Technologies (SMART) on FHIR enabled HealthLake data store allows access to SMART on FHIR compliant applications. HealthLake data is accessed by authenticating and authorizing requests using a third-party authorization server. So instead of managing user credentials via AWS Identity and Access Management, you are doing so using a SMART on FHIR compliant authorization server.

Note

HealthLake supports SMART on FHIR 1.0. To learn more about this framework, see SMART Application Launch Framework Implementation Guide Release 1.0.

HealthLake data stores support the following authentication and authorization frameworks for SMART on FHIR requests:

  • OpenID (AuthN): for authenticating the person or client application is who (or what) they claim to be.

  • OAuth 2.0 (AuthZ): for authorizing which FHIR resources in your HealthLake data store an authenticated request can read or write to. This is defined by the scopes set up in your authorization server.

You can create a SMART on FHIR enabled data store using the AWS CLI or AWS SDKs. For more information, see Creating a HealthLake data store.

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