An update to the SMART client

December 13, 2018 Leave a comment

Just a quick note the say that I’ve made a couple of changes to the SMART client we discussed in a previous post.

There’s now an option to start the login process in a separate tab. This is needed because a number of sites I’ve been testing won’t let the login page open in an iFrame (it’s a security thing). When you configure the server, select the ‘separate tab’ option under ‘Where to open Browser’ at the bottom of the first page. Read more of this post

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Delving into SMART

December 10, 2018 3 Comments

While FHIR is not a security standard ‘per se’, there are numerous references in the spec to security related matters – including a specific module in the specification. One of the recommendations made is about SMART – a defined way to use the OAuth2 Authorization framework in FHIR. I recently gave a webinar on SMART, and part of the feedback was that it wasn’t enough detail for a developer to implement a solution – while this wasn’t really the focus of the presentation, it did make me realize that there will be a lot of interest in this from developers, so thought it might be useful to develop a SMART application – and call out the significant parts as we go.

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