Cerner Financial System API - Implementation Template

The following describes how to configure a System Account in Cerner.

Setting up a System Account

1. Register an account at Cerner Central.
2. Request a 'System Account' by navigating from the landing page to 'Requests' and clicking the Request System Account button.
3. Enter the following details:
   • Account Description – A brief description.
   • Production System – Select "No" unless you are creating an account for production.
   • Cerner Client – Select "No".
   • Millennium Sytem – Select "No".

Creating an App in Cerner

1. Visit the authorization page to set up the authorization scope for the app.
   
   
2. Click the + New App button in the top right corner of the page.
3. Fill in the required prompts on the page. Select App type as ‘System’.
   
   
4. In the 'Scopes' section, select all the scopes that are applicable including coverage resource and click the Register button.
   
   
   
   

Testing

1. Send a POST request using the following:
   • Token URL: https://authorization.cerner.com/tenants/ec2458f2-1e24-41c8-b71b-0e701af7583d/protocols/oauth2/profiles/smart-v1/token)
   • Header Parameters: Authorization — Basic authentication with Username as the account ID from Cerner Central and Secret from secrets as the Password.
   • Body: (enter the following)
     
     

     Body Type: x-www-form-urlencoded
     "grant_type" : "client_credentials"
     "scope" : "List of scopes selected as part of App creation and whatever might be required"

     
     
     
2. To make requests to Cerner FHIR R4, use the generated access_token from the previous step as Bearer Token.