Single-endpoint report

VA Lighthouse Patient Health API (production): endpoint report

Everything this project observed about this one endpoint, everything it did not observe, and what would change the result. Free to read, link, print and hand on; there is nothing here behind a sign-in and nothing to buy.

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Grade on this run

Grade: A
Category: Provider and health system APIs
Base URL observed: https://api.va.gov/services/fhir/v0/r4
Reach on this run: Reached from 3 of 3 reporting vantages, sitting on 1 network. Vantages on one network are one network's view sampled several times.
Last answered: 2026-10-03 (answered on this run)
Availability: answered 58 of the last 58 daily checks (100%)
Observed: 2026-10-03 15:21 UTC

What was observed, and what was not

This report covers 9 checks. 9 ran. 0 were asked from every reporting vantage and answered by none. 0 were never asked, because nothing was retrieved for them to read. The three are different facts and none of them is a zero: a check that did not run publishes no number, no mark against this endpoint, and nothing below to act on.

Reachability

Reachability: 100 out of 100
Check	State	What this run observed
R1	Pass	/metadata answers with HTTP 2xx over HTTPS: reachable from all 3 vantages, which are 3 hosts on one network (github-actions): one network's view sampled 3 times, not 3 independent networks
R2	Pass	/metadata responded in 328 ms (median across 3 reachable vantages on one network)

Capability transparency

Capability transparency: 80 out of 100
Check	State	What this run observed
T1	Pass	fhirVersion declared: '4.0.1' (expected 4.x)
T2	Needs attention	software name/version missing
T3	Pass	19 resource types declared
T4	Pass	19/19 declared resources document their interactions

Interop readiness

Interop readiness: 100 out of 100
Check	State	What this run observed
I1	Pass	US Core / CARIN / Da Vinci profiles declared in CapabilityStatement.instantiates, rest.resource.profile, rest.resource.supportedProfile
I2	Pass	SMART discovery document present and complete
I3	Pass	OAuth/SMART security service declared in CapabilityStatement

What each vantage saw

reached from 3 of 3 reporting vantages, on 1 network
Vantage	Result	What it saw	Condition
`github-actions/macos-latest`	reached	answered in 404 ms	HTTP 200
`github-actions/ubuntu-latest`	reached	answered in 188 ms	HTTP 200
`github-actions/windows-latest`	reached	answered in 328 ms	HTTP 200

Vantages on one network are one network’s view sampled several times. A rule applied to that network’s address space reaches every one of them at once and reads exactly like agreement.

What would change this

Ordered by the points each would recover. Every item below comes from a check that actually ran on this run; nothing derived from a check that did not run appears here. The three dimensions are weighted, so recovering points does not guarantee a different letter — how we grade gives the weights.

Declare what is running, in software.name and software.version. Both are needed; one without the other does not pass.
Worth up to 20 of the 100 points in Capability transparency.
This run observed: software name/version missing
T2: what this check is Spec ↗

If this does not match what you see

Every number here describes two public documents at one moment, read from the vantages listed above. If it does not match what you serve, the difference is worth knowing.

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Where this came from

live CapabilityStatement fetch on the VA's api.va.gov domain; implementation description 'FHIR R4 Health APIs.'; sourced from developer.va.gov (recorded 2026-08-05). Re-checked 2026-08-19: live CapabilityStatement re-fetch from the davis-ca residential vantage; fhirVersion 4.0.1, 19 resource types, publisher 'Department of Veterans Affairs', software 'health-api-fhir-r4'.

The same run, as data: this endpoint's JSON, what its CapabilityStatement declares, resource by resource, and every observation on record for it, with the dates it answered and the dates it did not.

This is an observational snapshot of a public, unauthenticated surface. It is not an audit, a ranking of care quality, or a statement about anyone's regulatory compliance. Grades are comparable within a category only. See how we grade.