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athenahealth is a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR), revenue cycle management, and practice management platform serving ambulatory practices, hospitals, and health systems across the United States. The athenaOne platform spans patient engagement, scheduling, clinical documentation, ordering, e-prescribing, population health, and billing/claims. The athenahealth API surface exposes both a proprietary REST API and a Cures Act-certified FHIR R4 server with US Core / USCDI conformance, FHIR Subscriptions for event-driven webhooks, FHIR Bulk Data ($export) for population-scale data sharing, and CDS Hooks for embedded clinical decision support. The company is privately held by Veritas Capital and Hellman & Friedman following the 2022 take-private acquisition.

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EHRElectronic Health RecordsHealthcareHL7FHIRInteroperabilityPractice ManagementRevenue Cycle ManagementUSCDICures ActSMART on FHIRCDS HooksCloud EHR

athenahealth publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including athenaOne REST API, FHIR R4 API, FHIR Subscriptions API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include EHR, Electronic Health Records, Healthcare, HL7, and FHIR.

The athenahealth catalog on APIs.io includes 13 machine-runnable capabilities, 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

athenahealth’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, sandbox, support, engineering blog, tooling, SDKs, and 18 more developer resources.

APIs

athenahealth athenaOne REST API

The athenaOne proprietary REST API exposes the complete provider, patient, and biller workflow surface of athenahealth's cloud-based EHR and practice management platform. Resour...

athenahealth FHIR R4 API

The athenahealth FHIR R4 server is certified to the ONC Cures Act Final Rule and serves US Core and USCDI profiles. Preview base URL https://api.preview.platform.athenahealth.co...

athenahealth FHIR Subscriptions API

The athenahealth Event Subscription Platform delivers near real-time healthcare-domain event notifications via FHIR Subscriptions. Conforms to FHIR Subscriptions R5 Backport STU...

athenahealth FHIR Bulk Data Access API

FHIR Bulk Data Access ($export) for athenahealth — Group-level export operation that returns NDJSON files containing FHIR resources for all patients in a specified Group. Implem...

athenahealth CDS Hooks API

CDS Hooks integration for athenaOne — invoke remote clinical decision support services at well-defined points in the EHR workflow (patient-view, order-select, order-sign, appoin...

Capabilities

Event Specifications

athenahealth FHIR Subscriptions Events

Event-driven notifications from the athenahealth Event Subscription Platform. Delivered as FHIR Bundle notifications (R5 Backport) over rest-hook channel with id-only payloads. ...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies

Athena Health Context

23 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

API Governance Rules

athenahealth API Rules

8 rules · 4 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Resources

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Portal
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Sandbox
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Documentation
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Documentation
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Support
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Marketplace
Marketplace
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Blog
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Plans
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FinOps
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Vocabulary
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Spectral
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Samples
Samples
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Samples
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Tools
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apis:
- aid: athena-health:athenahealth-athenaone-rest-api
  name: athenahealth athenaOne REST API
  tags:
  - EHR
  - Healthcare
  - Practice Management
  - Patients
  - Appointments
  - Encounters
  - Claims
  - Documents
  - Providers
  humanURL: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/docs/athenaone-apis
  baseURL: https://api.platform.athenahealth.com/v1/{practiceid}
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/docs/athenaone-apis
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/api-ref/patient
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/api-ref/appointment
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/docs/encounter
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/athenahealth-athenaone-rest-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: json-schema/athenahealth-patient-schema.json
    type: JSONSchema
  - url: json-schema/athenahealth-appointment-schema.json
    type: JSONSchema
  - url: json-ld/athena-health-context.jsonld
    type: JSONLD
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/patients-patients.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/appointments-appointments.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/encounters-encounters.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/claims-claims.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/documents-documents.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/providers-providers.yaml
  description: The athenaOne proprietary REST API exposes the complete provider, patient, and biller workflow surface
    of athenahealth's cloud-based EHR and practice management platform. Resources include Patients, Appointments,
    Encounters, Claims, Documents, Charts, Providers, Departments, Insurance, Orders, and Billing. Authenticated
    via OAuth 2.0 client_credentials at the athenahealth Developer Portal; scoped per practice
    via the practiceid path parameter.
- aid: athena-health:athenahealth-fhir-r4-api
  name: athenahealth FHIR R4 API
  tags:
  - EHR
  - FHIR
  - Healthcare
  - HL7
  - USCDI
  - US Core
  - Interoperability
  humanURL: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/docs/fhir-apis
  baseURL: https://api.platform.athenahealth.com/fhir/r4
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/docs/fhir-apis
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/guides/base-fhir-urls
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://mydata.athenahealth.com/fhirapidoc/r4
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://fhir.athena.io/athenacoreext/index.html
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/athenahealth-fhir-r4-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: json-schema/athenahealth-fhir-patient-schema.json
    type: JSONSchema
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/fhir-patient.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/fhir-encounter.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/fhir-observation.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/fhir-medication-request.yaml
  description: The athenahealth FHIR R4 server is certified to the ONC Cures Act Final Rule and serves US Core and
    USCDI profiles. Preview base URL https://api.preview.platform.athenahealth.com/fhir/r4 and production base URL
    https://api.platform.athenahealth.com/fhir/r4. Supports Patient, Encounter, Observation, Condition,
    MedicationRequest, AllergyIntolerance, DocumentReference, DiagnosticReport, CarePlan, Goal, Immunization, and
    other US Core profiles. Authenticated via SMART on FHIR with the same OAuth 2.0 authorization server as the
    proprietary athenaOne API.
- aid: athena-health:athenahealth-fhir-subscriptions-api
  name: athenahealth FHIR Subscriptions API
  tags:
  - EHR
  - Events
  - FHIR
  - Healthcare
  - Subscriptions
  - Webhooks
  humanURL: https://github.com/athenahealth/aone-fhir-subscriptions
  baseURL: https://api.platform.athenahealth.com/fhir/r4
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/athenahealth/aone-fhir-subscriptions
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/athenahealth-fhir-subscriptions-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: asyncapi/athenahealth-fhir-subscriptions-asyncapi.yml
    type: AsyncAPI
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/fhir-subscriptions.yaml
  description: The athenahealth Event Subscription Platform delivers near real-time healthcare-domain event
    notifications via FHIR Subscriptions. Conforms to FHIR Subscriptions R5 Backport STU 1.0.0 implementation
    guide. Currently supports the rest-hook channel and id-only payload type. Webhook endpoints must respond with
    2xx within a 2 second timeout. Use this API to react to creates and updates on Patients, Appointments,
    Encounters, Observations, Conditions, and other clinical resources without polling.
- aid: athena-health:athenahealth-fhir-bulk-data-api
  name: athenahealth FHIR Bulk Data Access API
  tags:
  - Bulk Data
  - EHR
  - FHIR
  - Healthcare
  - Interoperability
  - USCDI
  humanURL: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/resources/227-release-added-fhir-bulk-data-access-capability-support-21st-century-cures
  baseURL: https://api.platform.athenahealth.com/fhir/r4
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/resources/227-release-added-fhir-bulk-data-access-capability-support-21st-century-cures
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.mydata.athenahealth.com/fhir-r4/ehiexport.html
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/athenahealth-fhir-bulk-data-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/fhir-bulk-export.yaml
  description: FHIR Bulk Data Access ($export) for athenahealth — Group-level export operation that returns
    NDJSON files containing FHIR resources for all patients in a specified Group. Implements the FHIR Bulk Data
    Access (Flat FHIR) Export Implementation Guide and the FHIR Asynchronous Request Pattern. Required for
    21st Century Cures Act compliance and is used for population-health analytics and EHI export workflows.
- aid: athena-health:athenahealth-cds-hooks-api
  name: athenahealth CDS Hooks API
  tags:
  - CDS Hooks
  - Clinical Decision Support
  - EHR
  - FHIR
  - Healthcare
  humanURL: https://docs.athenahealth.com/downloads/athenaone-cds-hooks-integration-guide
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/downloads/athenaone-cds-hooks-integration-guide
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/athenahealth-cds-hooks-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/cds-hooks.yaml
  description: CDS Hooks integration for athenaOne — invoke remote clinical decision support services at well-defined
    points in the EHR workflow (patient-view, order-select, order-sign, appointment-book). Returns Cards
    (suggestion, action, link) and optional SMART App Launch links to display real-time guidance inside the
    athenaOne provider experience.
name: athenahealth
tags:
- EHR
- Electronic Health Records
- Healthcare
- HL7
- FHIR
- Interoperability
- Practice Management
- Revenue Cycle Management
- USCDI
- Cures Act
- SMART on FHIR
- CDS Hooks
- Cloud EHR
kind: contract
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access: 3rd-Party
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/athenahealth
- url: https://www.athenahealth.com/
  name: athenahealth Homepage
  type: Portal
- url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/
  name: APIs at athenahealth
  type: Documentation
- url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/guides/overview
  name: Welcome to APIs at athenahealth
  type: Documentation
- url: https://mydata.athenahealth.com/access-the-apis
  name: athenahealth Developer Portal
  type: Portal
- url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/sandbox
  name: API Solutions Sandbox
  type: Sandbox
- url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/guides/athenaone-environments
  name: athenaOne Environments
  type: Documentation
- url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/guides/base-fhir-urls
  name: FHIR Base URLs
  type: Documentation
- url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/guides/onboarding-overview
  name: Onboarding Overview
  type: Documentation
- url: https://docs.athenahealth.com/api/support
  name: Support
  type: Support
- url: https://www.athenahealth.com/solutions/marketplace
  name: athenahealth Marketplace
  type: Marketplace
- url: https://www.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub
  name: athenahealth Knowledge Hub
  type: Blog
- url: https://github.com/athenahealth
  name: athenahealth GitHub
  type: Source
- url: https://fhir.athena.io/athenacoreext/index.html
  name: Athena Core FHIR Implementation Guide
  type: Documentation
- url: https://mydata.athenahealth.com/fhirapidoc/r4
  name: R4 API Documentation
  type: Documentation
- url: plans/athena-health-plans-pricing.yml
  type: Plans
- url: rate-limits/athena-health-rate-limits.yml
  type: RateLimits
- url: finops/athena-health-finops.yml
  type: FinOps
- url: vocabulary/athena-health-vocabulary.yml
  type: Vocabulary
- url: rules/athena-health-rules.yml
  type: Spectral
- url: https://github.com/athenahealth/mdp
  name: MDP API Samples
  type: Samples
- url: https://github.com/athenahealth/apiserver-athenaFlex
  name: athenaPractice/athenaFlow FHIR Sample
  type: Samples
- url: https://github.com/athenahealth/aone-fhir-subscriptions
  name: athenaOne FHIR Subscriptions Sample
  type: Samples
- url: https://github.com/athenahealth/vscode-cql-extension
  name: VSCode CQL Extension
  type: Tools
- url: https://github.com/eleanorhealth/go-athenahealth
  name: Go athenahealth SDK (community)
  type: SDK
description: athenahealth is a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR), revenue cycle management, and practice
  management platform serving ambulatory practices, hospitals, and health systems across the United States. The
  athenaOne platform spans patient engagement, scheduling, clinical documentation, ordering, e-prescribing,
  population health, and billing/claims. The athenahealth API surface exposes both a proprietary REST API and a
  Cures Act-certified FHIR R4 server with US Core / USCDI conformance, FHIR Subscriptions for event-driven
  webhooks, FHIR Bulk Data ($export) for population-scale data sharing, and CDS Hooks for embedded clinical
  decision support. The company is privately held by Veritas Capital and Hellman & Friedman following the 2022
  take-private acquisition.