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Athenhealth offers a testing sandbox to interact and develop against their athenaOne and FHIR APIs Server. If you want to try out the AthenaHealth Athenahealth Adapter in Iguana X, you’ll first need to login or signup for an Athenahealth developer account and get access credentials:

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titleGo to https://developer.api.athena.io/ams-portal/ and login or signup for an Athenhealth developer account

Go to https://developer.api.athena.io/ams-portal/ and login or sign up with password reset!

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Note: You computer Public IP needs to be in Athenahealth supported region (ex. US), otherwise you won’t be able to access Athenhealth Sandbox

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titleOnce you're logged in, in the Build Apps tab, click Create a New App

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Enter your App details and Click Create Application
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titleChoose API Access and App Category

API Access

  • We use “My app will use 1+ non-Certified APIs“ options for interacting both AthenaOne and FHIR API

AP Category

  • Select the OAuth method you’ll be using - in our case, we’ll use 2-legged OAuth since Iguana is connecting at a system level

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titleEnter your App details and click Save

Enter the following required information:

  1. Public-facing app name

  2. Description

  3. App Contact Information

  4. Authentication Method

    1. For our example, we use “Secret“ but Iguana X is capable of supporting “JWK“ authentication Method

  5. Click on “I Agree“

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titleCheck API Rate Limits for daily usage

Click on “Rate Limits“ tab and observe API Rate Limits

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Note: This specifies the number of API calls permitted per second and per day, as well as the number of token requests that can be made per minute. This is especially important to note during development as you can easily make more calls than intended while troubleshooting or writing code