Medplum MCP

What Medplum MCP does

Medplum MCP gives AI agents access to healthcare data stored in Medplum. Its focus is FHIR data: agents can retrieve information from the Medplum platform and perform supported management operations on healthcare records.

The server fits applications built around Medplum’s healthcare platform, including systems that use its Clinical Data Repository and FHIR-based API. It is intended for agent workflows that need to work with existing Medplum data rather than a general-purpose database or an unrelated healthcare system.

Medplum is a developer platform for healthcare applications. Its broader product includes authentication, a secure clinical data repository, a FHIR API, client SDKs, a web application, server-side bots, and React components. Medplum MCP is relevant specifically to the agent-facing use case of accessing and managing the FHIR data held by that platform.

How it works

An MCP-compatible AI client uses the server to interact with Medplum data through agent tools. The data model and API context come from FHIR, the healthcare interoperability standard used by Medplum’s API. This gives an agent a route to work with records in a Medplum-backed application while keeping the source system as Medplum.

The repository is a full-stack TypeScript monorepo. Its listed technologies include Node.js-backed servers, React applications, PostgreSQL storage, Redis, Express, and TypeScript. Medplum’s backend API server and FHIR-related packages form part of the platform surrounding the data accessed by this integration.

Tools and capabilities

• Access FHIR healthcare data stored in Medplum.
• Manage healthcare records in Medplum.
• Work with data through Medplum’s FHIR-based API.
• Connect agent workflows to a Medplum Clinical Data Repository.

Limitations and notes

Medplum MCP is specialized for FHIR healthcare data in Medplum. It is therefore a better fit for agents operating on Medplum-backed clinical or healthcare applications than for arbitrary databases, non-FHIR datasets, or services outside the Medplum platform.

Because the underlying system contains healthcare data, deployments should account for the access controls and data-handling requirements of the Medplum environment. Medplum’s platform includes authentication and permissions capabilities, including OAuth, OpenID, and SMART-on-FHIR support; the applicable configuration depends on the surrounding Medplum application and deployment.