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Learn about the latest updates to the Fasten Connect service.
Added
- Webhooks: Added support for
patient.connection_success
webhook event.
Added
- Quickstart: details for parsing the
eventBus
event data (usingJSON.parse()
) in the Stitch v3 example.
Added
- Stitch v3: Fixed a bug where some connection failures incorrectly returned an
unknown_error_during_connect
error message. - Quickstart: Stitch v3 is now the recommended version for integrating Fasten Connect into your application.
Added
- Catalog: Added new aliases and metadata for healthcare institutions & health systems using AllScripts & Epic
Added
- Stitch v3: All CSS styles are now namespaced with a
fhtw-
prefix. This means that any CSS styles provided by Fasten will not affect other elements on your page. - Stitch v3: Bug:
connection_status
will always be present in thewidget.complete
event data. - Stitch v3: Bug:
reconnect_org_connection_id
was not working correctly. This has been fixed.
Added
- Webhooks: Added support for a
failure_reason
in the event payload.
Added
- Catalog, API: updated catalog search engine to boost exact matches (on name and & aliases). This will increase search accuracy.
Added
- API: fixed catalog search pagination.
searchAfter
no longer needs to be converted to string array.sort
values can be passed to the API as-is (in mixed array of numbers and strings). - API: adding status badges to show the status of various EHR sandbox accounts we provide for testing purposes, in
test
mode. - Docs: Updated documentation to include a status badge for the sandbox accounts.
Added
- Stitch: documentation related to “popup-timeout” parameter.
- Stitch: Fixed issue where duplicate events generated when multiple Stitch instances are used on the same page.
- API: Fixed issue where warnings emails were not correctly sent when a webhook is consistently failing, and will be disabled.
Added
- API: documentation updated to reference the new
request_id
parameter sent to the Redirect URL. Provides a correlation ID that should be sent with ticket requests to the Fasten Connect support team. - API: Added
support/request
endpoint to create a support ticket via the API. - “Webhooks & Events”: Added new
failure_reason
parameter sent with failed webhook events. Provides a sanitized reason for why the ehi-export operation failed, can be used for filtering/notifying patient to reauthenticate.
Added
- Stitch: v3 release of the Stitch.js widget is now available for use. This version includes a number of bug fixes and improvements.
Added
- Portal: Added some flexibility in the login system, allowing for clock skew between the client and server.
Added
- Catalog: NPI Numbers are now included in the
GET /v1/bridge/catalog
response.
Added
- Portal: Added a note field for API credentials, helping users to identify the purpose of each credential.
Added
- API: Automatically disable webhooks that are misbehaved (e.g. 404 errors). This is to prevent spam and abuse of the webhook system.
Added
- API: documentation updated to reference the new
task_id
parameter. Used for both EHI-Export Status and Download endpoints.
Deprecated
- API: the
org_connection_id
provided by webhook events is now deprecated (will be removed in Jan, 2024), instead implementors should use thetask_id
parameter when calling the EHI-Export Status and Download endpoints.
Added
- Stitch: documentation related to redirect query string parameters on error. This includes the new
request_id
parameter.
Added
- Stitch: Added the ability to provide an opaque
external_state
which is passed through to the Redirect URL on successful authentication.
Added
- Webhooks & Events: Updated documentation
- Webhooks & Events: Added new Webhooks system, with support for retries, delivery logs & additional events.
- Webhooks & Events: Compliant with standard-webhooks spec
Added
- Stitch: Fixed
reconnect_org_connection_id
- when clicked, should automatically redirect patient to the Health System’s login page.
Added
- Stitch: Fixed swapped descriptions for
platform_type
andconnection_status
- Quickstart: Clarified that Webhooks are
POST
requests
Added
- Stitch: Using “Health System” term consistently in the UI
- Stitch: Added a warning message before redirecting to the Health System’s login page
Added
- Stitch: Platform Type (EHR system identifier) is now passed as a query parameter to the Redirect URL on successful authentication.
Added
- Stitch: Added the ability to request missing Health Systems. Fixed Pagination of Brands
- Stitch: Added the ability to provide an opaque
external_id
which is passed through to the Redirect URL on successful authentication. - Stitch: Added the ability to show and hide the Search popup programmatically using the
show()
andhide()
methods.
Added
- Catalog Search: Added the ability to search through all available healthcare institutions supported by Fasten Connect
POST /v1/bridge/catalog/search
- Catalog Lookup: Added the ability to lookup a specific Fasten Connect brand or portal by it’s id
GET /v1/bridge/catalog