Setup Athenahealth Sandbox
- Richard Wang
- Aryn Wiebe
- Lianne So
Athenahealth offers a testing sandbox to interact and develop against their athenaOne and FHIR API server. If you want to try out the Athenahealth Adapter in Iguana X, you’ll first need to login or signup for an Athenahealth developer account and get access credentials:
Go to Portal and login or sign up with password reset!
You computer Public IP needs to be in an Athenahealth supported region (ex. US), otherwise you won’t be able to access Athenahealth Sandbox
API Access: We use the “My app will use 1+ non-Certified APIs“ option 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
Enter the following required information:
Public-facing app name
Description
App Contact Information
Authentication Method
For our example, we use “Secret“ but Iguana X is capable of supporting “JWK“ authentication Method
Click on “I Agree“
Once you submit the details, you’ll receive Your App’s Credentials (Client ID and Secret). Make sure to note these down as you’ll need to load them into the component in Iguana.
By default, the application will be loaded with the athenaOne scopes, which gives full access to the athenaOne endpoints
If you plan to work with FHIR, edit the scopes to include the specific resources you’ll be working with
Copy the scope paths as you’ll need to load these into the component in Iguana
Click on “Rate Limits“ tab and observe API Rate Limits.
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.
