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
  - 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: Forum
    url: https://repost.aws/tags/questions/TAFhiamjeiTUCXp3LbfpEJhw/aws-health-lake
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]