Using Lantern to shed light on FHIR API deployments
summary
Lantern is an ONC‑sponsored MITRE open‑source system that polls published service URLs, fetches metadata via the FHIR capabilities operation, and dashboards availability and response time and resource‑by‑field support across 2,257 indexed endpoints. It reveals large variability: zero endpoints include implementation‑guide metadata, many capability statements omit common fields, and Epic and Cerner dominate the corpus. Lantern uncovers real issues (it helped find a broken FHIR invariant), parses capability statements for adoptable metrics, and is adding profile support and org‑resolution features.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 1:24What is Lantern?
- 2:06How Does Lantern Work?
- 14:28A "Wild-West" of Publication Formats...
- 15:39Standardized Publication Format...
- 16:29Endpoint Organization Issues...
- 18:37Endpoint Organizations Revealed!








