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Defense Health Agency

The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is a joint, integrated combat support agency that enables the Army, Navy, and Air Force medical services to provide a medically ready force and ready medical force to combatant commands. DHA operates the Military Health System (MHS), MHS Genesis electronic health record, the Military Health System Data Repository (MDR), and the Enterprise Intelligence and Data Solutions (EIDS) program. Data exchange inside MHS Genesis uses SMART on FHIR APIs, but DHA does not currently publish a general-purpose public developer API.

Defense Health Agency publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: MHS Genesis SMART on FHIR API. Tagged areas include Federal Government, Defense, Department of Defense, Health, and Military Health System.

Defense Health Agency’s developer surface includes product news and 5 more developer resources.

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23.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
Federal GovernmentDefenseDepartment of DefenseHealthMilitary Health SystemMHS GenesisFHIRHealth IT

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 23.2/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 8.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MHS Genesis SMART on FHIR API

MHS Genesis, the Department of Defense electronic health record built on Oracle Health (Cerner), exposes a SMART on FHIR interface for authorized clinical applications to read a...

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Defense Health Agency Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Defense Health Agency Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Defense Health Agency Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Defense Health Agency Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 4

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 About DHA
About DHA
 News
News

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Publications
Publications

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: defense-health-agency
name: Defense Health Agency
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/defense-health-agency/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
description: The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is a joint, integrated combat support agency that enables the Army, Navy, and
  Air Force medical services to provide a medically ready force and ready medical force to combatant commands. DHA operates
  the Military Health System (MHS), MHS Genesis electronic health record, the Military Health System Data Repository (MDR),
  and the Enterprise Intelligence and Data Solutions (EIDS) program. Data exchange inside MHS Genesis uses SMART on FHIR APIs,
  but DHA does not currently publish a general-purpose public developer API.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/defense-health-agency.png
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consuming
specificationVersion: '0.19'
kind: government
tags:
- Federal Government
- Defense
- Department of Defense
- Health
- Military Health System
- MHS Genesis
- FHIR
- Health IT
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-04-28'
apis:
- aid: defense-health-agency:mhs-genesis-smart-on-fhir
  name: MHS Genesis SMART on FHIR API
  description: MHS Genesis, the Department of Defense electronic health record built on Oracle Health (Cerner), exposes a
    SMART on FHIR interface for authorized clinical applications to read and write patient data. Access is restricted to vetted
    application partners and DoD beneficiaries.
  humanURL: https://health.mil/About-MHS/OASDHA/Defense-Health-Agency/Solution-Delivery-Division/MHS-GENESIS
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - SMART on FHIR
  - Electronic Health Record
  - MHS Genesis
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://health.mil/About-MHS/OASDHA/Defense-Health-Agency/Solution-Delivery-Division/MHS-GENESIS
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/defense-health-agency-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-health-agency
- type: Website
  url: https://www.health.mil
- type: About DHA
  url: https://www.health.mil/About-MHS/OASDHA/Defense-Health-Agency
- type: Publications
  url: https://health.mil/Reference-Center/DHA-Publications
- type: News
  url: https://www.health.mil/News
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com