For US healthtech founders, product teams and integration leads
Connect a patient app, provider tool or analytics product to Practice Fusion. We take you through the Patient Data Sharing (PDS) API registration, choose the right app type, build the FHIR connection and test what the practice's records actually return before customer rollout.
Discuss my Practice Fusion integrationFor healthcare software companies and practice technology teams. Updated October 17, 2026.
PDS API partner form, terms of service and approval
Patient, provider or system bulk export
OAuth 2.0 and SMART scopes against FHIR R4
Check missing sections and map to your model
Illustrative workflow · scope tailored to your environment
The short answer
Yes. Practice Fusion, a Veradigm company, publishes certified FHIR APIs: HL7 FHIR R4 (4.0.1), US Core 6.1.0 for USCDI v3, SMART App Launch 2.0.0 and Bulk Data Access 1.0.1. Developers register through the PDS API Partner Registration Form, accept the terms of service and, once approved, submit an application in the PDS API portal to receive credentials. The public documentation describes reading clinical data; plan any write workflow only after confirming it is supported.
Read our Practice Fusion API and FHIR guideStart with the real problem
A FHIR connection can succeed while the data your product depends on is missing or recorded elsewhere in the chart. Teams report partial results when they expect every section to come back. Your product needs a field list checked against real practice records, clear handling for empty sections and a plan for anything the API does not expose.
Your starting point
Patients authorize your app to read their Practice Fusion record, often to combine it with records from other providers.
Practice staff use your tool alongside the EHR, as a stand-alone app or launched from within Practice Fusion.
Your product needs data for a whole practice population rather than one patient at a time.
The Engineering Engagement
Workstreams are selected around your priorities. Each comes with an output your team can inspect, test and own.
Prepare the partner registration, the application name, description, homepage, privacy policy and app type, and the JWKS URL where asymmetric key authentication applies. Track approval and credential delivery.
Map the US Core resources your product reads to your own model. Test against real practice records for empty sections, coded values and duplicates, and record which data comes from the API and which does not.
Implement the OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow for patient and provider apps, keep secrets and keys server-side, request only the scopes you need and handle expiry and refresh.
Design system-level bulk exports where your use case needs practice-wide data. Exercise denied access, revoked consent, large exports and failed requests before customer rollout.
Expertise is in the decisions
Practice Fusion separates patient apps, provider apps and system or bulk export apps. The choice decides who authorizes access, which scopes apply and how each practice enables your app.
The public PDS API documentation describes read operations. If your workflow needs to change data in the chart, confirm the supported route with Practice Fusion before you design around it.
Compare a direct Practice Fusion registration with an intermediary that already connects to many EHRs. Check data coverage, recurring fees and support ownership against the actual workflow.
Development cost depends on operations, mappings, customer configurations and failure handling. Vendor charges and onboarding lead time are assessed separately from engineering effort.
This service page describes work we can scope. It does not establish a vendor partnership, a marketplace listing, a pre-approved connector or a completed deployment for your customer.
Production permissions, commercial terms and clinical sign-off remain with the appropriate customer and vendor owners. We identify these dependencies during discovery.
From discussion to delivery
Agree the users, data, actions and access dependencies. Return a supported-operation map and an estimate with assumptions.
Build the selected connection and test ordinary requests and failures with authorized test data. Label sandbox results separately from production evidence.
Validate the agreed workflow in the customer environment, assign support ownership and complete the approved cutover.
We agree the scope, dependencies, acceptance criteria and commercial model before implementation. Your existing team can stay involved throughout.
Find the right starting point ↗Practice Fusion publishes certified FHIR APIs and developer documentation. Access requires a PDS API partner registration, acceptance of the terms of service and approval before credentials are issued.
Its getting-started page lists HL7 FHIR R4 (4.0.1), US Core 6.1.0 for USCDI v3, SMART App Launch 2.0.0 and Bulk Data Access 1.0.1. We check the live capability statement before building.
The public developer documentation describes reading clinical data. We do not plan a write workflow until Practice Fusion confirms a supported route for it in writing.
Data can be missing because a section is empty, recorded in a field the API does not map, or outside the scopes granted. We test with real practice records and record each gap before your product relies on it.
Practice Fusion links a Certified EHR API fees document from its developer pages. We review the current version with you during the access assessment and keep vendor charges separate from engineering cost.
We estimate after confirming the app type, resources, data mappings and customer rollout. The proposal separates engineering work, vendor or intermediary charges and dependencies that affect delivery.
Yes. We can scope a common application contract with an adapter for each EHR. Available data, permissions and customer onboarding remain specific to each system.
A useful first conversation
Tell us what exists today, who uses it and where the workflow breaks. We’ll discuss the scope, access dependencies and the next practical step.
A product overview and a de-identified workflow are enough to start. No patient records or credentials are needed.
These are independent reference sources, not endorsements. Applicability, platform access and current requirements are confirmed for your project.
