# AWS HealthLake

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/aws-healthlake/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

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.

## Kin Score — 61.7 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 61.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 66.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 63.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 73.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 55.3 |
| Access Clarity | 55.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 35.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **AWS HealthLake FHIR Import API** — 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 milli...
- **AWS HealthLake FHIR Export API** — 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 ex...
- **AWS HealthLake FHIR R4 Server API** — 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 A...
- **AWS HealthLake Resource Tagging API** — 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.
- **AWS HealthLake Datastore API** — Operations for creating, describing, listing, and deleting FHIR R4 data stores
- **AWS HealthLake Export API** — Asynchronous bulk export operations for exporting FHIR resources to Amazon S3
- **AWS HealthLake Import API** — Asynchronous bulk import operations for loading FHIR resources from Amazon S3
- **AWS HealthLake Tags API** — Resource tagging operations for cost allocation and resource management

## Agentic access (1)

- **Aws Healthlake Agentic Access** — 13 operations · 13 acting

## Security (4)

- **Aws Healthlake Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Aws Healthlake Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Aws Healthlake Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Aws Healthlake Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Aws Healthlake Plans**

## Tags

Healthcare, FHIR, Health Data, Clinical Data, HIPAA, Interoperability, NLP, Medical, HL7

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/aws-healthlake/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.