AWS HealthLake

name: AWS HealthLake
description: Amazon HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible, FHIR R4-compliant managed service for importing, transforming, storing,
  and querying health data from patients and clinical systems. It provides a transactional FHIR server with bulk import/export,
  medical NLP for unstructured data extraction, SMART on FHIR authorization, and integration with AWS analytics services.
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created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
aid: aws-healthlake
type: Index
tags:
- Healthcare
- FHIR
- Health Data
- Clinical Data
- HIPAA
- Interoperability
- NLP
- Medical
- HL7
- AWS
apis:
- name: AWS HealthLake Data Store Management API
  description: REST API for creating, describing, listing, and deleting FHIR R4 data stores. Supports server-side encryption
    configuration, identity provider configuration for SMART on FHIR, and optional preloading of synthetic Synthea data for
    development.
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  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Data Store
  - FHIR
  - Create
  - Delete
  - Describe
  - List
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk/blob/main/apis/healthlake/2017-07-01/api-2.json
  - url: graphql/aws-healthlake-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- name: AWS HealthLake FHIR Import API
  description: Asynchronous bulk import API for loading FHIR R4 resources from Amazon S3 into a HealthLake data store. Supports
    starting, describing, and listing import jobs with up to 1 million files and 5 TB total per job.
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  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRImportJob.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Import
  - Bulk Data
  - FHIR
  - S3
  - Async
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRImportJob.html
- name: AWS HealthLake FHIR Export API
  description: Asynchronous bulk export API for exporting FHIR R4 resources from a HealthLake data store to Amazon S3. Supports
    starting, describing, listing, and canceling export jobs, and exporting to analytics-ready formats for use with Amazon
    Athena.
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  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRExportJob.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Export
  - Bulk Data
  - FHIR
  - S3
  - Analytics
  - Athena
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRExportJob.html
- name: AWS HealthLake FHIR R4 Server API
  description: Transactional FHIR R4 server endpoints for reading, writing, searching, and validating FHIR resources within
    a data store. Supports SMART on FHIR authorization, FHIR Bulk Data Access, US Core IG, HL7 SMART App Launch Framework,
    OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect. Also includes FHIR Subscriptions via Amazon EventBridge and REST-Hook.
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  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/working-with-FHIR-healthlake.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - FHIR R4
  - Read
  - Write
  - Search
  - Validate
  - SMART on FHIR
  - OAuth 2.0
  - Subscriptions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/working-with-FHIR-healthlake.html
- name: AWS HealthLake Resource Tagging API
  description: API operations for adding, listing, and removing tags on HealthLake resources such as data stores. Supports
    up to 200 tags per resource for cost allocation and resource management.
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  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_TagResource.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Tags
  - Resource Management
  - Cost Allocation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_TagResource.html
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/what-is-amazon-health-lake.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
- type: Pricing
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/pricing/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/getting-started-amazon-health-lake.html
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/home
- type: SDKs
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/tools/
- type: CLI
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/healthlake/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/releases.html
- type: Authentication
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/security-iam.html
- type: Compliance
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/
- type: PrivateLink
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/vpc-endpoints.html
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aws-healthlake-plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aws-healthlake-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/aws-healthlake-finops.yml
- type: Partners
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/partners/
- type: Forums
  url: https://repost.aws/tags/questions/TAFhiamjeiTUCXp3LbfpEJhw/aws-health-lake
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com