Set up your Epic FHIR Sandbox

Epic offers a public testing sandbox to build integrations with their FHIR APIs. They also provide various sample patient data to use during development.

Go to https://fhir.epic.com and login or sign up!

Enter the following information:

1. App Name: “Iguana X FHIR Client“

2. Application Audience: Choose Backend Service (used for Apps without direct user interaction)

3. Incoming APIs - Choose all of the FHIR Resource API interactions you require. Notice the FHIR version of each API.

4. Public Key - Epic uses OAuth2.0 which JWT Client Assertion which requires the client to register a public key on the Epic on FHIR App and then use the corresponding private key to sign a JWT which is presented to the authorization server to obtain an access token required to interact with the Epic FHIR Server.

Open

• Copy your Non-Production Client ID for developing and testing in the sandbox.

• Choose your SMART on FHIR version

• Enter a brief summary for your App

• Accept the terms of use and click Save & Ready for Sandbox