aid: photon
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/photon/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Photon
kind: company
description: >-
  Photon Health is a United States prescription-infrastructure and e-prescribing
  (eRx) platform that lets digital-health companies embed prescribing, pharmacy
  selection, prescription routing, and fulfillment tracking into their clinical
  applications. Rather than an HL7 FHIR interface, Photon exposes a native
  GraphQL Clinical API - a single POST /graphql endpoint covering patients,
  prescriptions, orders, pharmacies, the medication/treatment catalog, drug-drug
  and drug-allergy screening, webhooks, and organization/user administration -
  plus a Patient Benefits API for pharmacy benefit checks and coverage. It also
  ships Photon Elements, prebuilt WebComponent UI for prescribing. The API is
  secured with OAuth2 client-credentials (Auth0) using machine-to-machine and
  user access tokens and prescription/order scopes; a sandbox runs on
  neutron.health. Photon serves prescribers and pharmacy-innovation partners
  including Amazon Pharmacy, Sesame, WeightWatchers, and Found.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Healthcare
- United States
- e-Prescribing
- Pharmacy
- Prescription Routing
- GraphQL
- Clinical API
- Digital Health
- Benefit Check
- OAuth2
created: '2026-07-24'
modified: '2026-07-24T18:00:00Z'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: photon:photon-clinical-api
  name: Photon Clinical API
  description: >-
    Photon's native GraphQL Clinical API for managing patients, prescriptions,
    orders, pharmacies, the treatment/medication catalog, drug-drug and
    drug-allergy interaction screening, webhooks, and organization/user
    administration. A single POST /graphql endpoint secured with OAuth2
    client-credentials (Auth0) bearer tokens. Schema harvested verbatim via
    unauthenticated GraphQL introspection.
  humanURL: https://docs.photon.health/reference/clinical-api
  baseURL: https://clinical-api.photon.health/graphql
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - e-Prescribing
  - Pharmacy
  properties:
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/photon-clinical-api-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.photon.health/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.photon.health/reference/clinical-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.photon.health/docs/authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.photon.health/docs/order-events
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.photon.health/docs/using-ddi-and-dai
- aid: photon:photon-patient-benefits-api
  name: Photon Patient Benefits API
  description: >-
    Photon's GraphQL Patient Benefits API for managing patient benefits and
    enabling pharmacy benefit checks (coverage options, copay, and formulary)
    during the prescribing workflow. Served over the same GraphQL endpoint via
    mutations such as createBenefit and generateCoverageOptions.
  humanURL: https://docs.photon.health/reference/patient-benefits-api
  baseURL: https://clinical-api.photon.health/graphql
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Benefit Check
  - Coverage
  properties:
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/photon-clinical-api-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.photon.health/docs/benefit-check-documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.photon.health/reference/patient-benefits-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.photon.health/docs/authentication
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/photon-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://photonhealth.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.photon.health/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.photon.health/docs/getting-started
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.photon.health/reference/clinical-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.photon.health/docs/getting-started
- type: Authentication
  url: https://docs.photon.health/docs/authentication
- type: SignUp
  url: https://photonhealth.com/onboard
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Photon-Health
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/photonhealth
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.photon.health
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.photon.health
- type: Blog
  url: https://photonhealth.com/blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://photonhealth.com/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://photonhealth.com/terms
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/photon-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/photon-scopes.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/photon-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/photon-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/photon-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/photon-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/photon-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/photon-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/photon-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/photon-lifecycle.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/photon-sandbox.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/photon-conventions.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/photon-components.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/photon-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/photon-order-events-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com