App Service

The App service facilitates login and user management for projects built on Oystehr. It consists of two resources:

• Applications — Applications provide authentication for the web and mobile apps you build on top of Oystehr. You will configure an Oystehr Application for any project that needs Oystehr login support, such as a patient portal or a provider-facing EHR system. Then, when Users log into your apps, they will authenticate with Oystehr and receive an access token which is used to call Oystehr APIs.
• Users — Users are the people who log into your apps. For example, you might have patient Users who log into a patient portal, or provider Users who log into a provider-facing EHR system. Users can be invited, or they can sign themselves up, depending on your Application's configuration.

Note that there is a difference between Users and Developers. Developers are the people who build the apps that Users log into and use. Learn more about the difference between Developers and Users.