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AWS HealthLake releases - AWS HealthLake

The following table shows when features and updates were released for AWS HealthLake. For more information about a release, see the linked topic.

ChangeDescriptionDate

SMART on FHIR V2 scopes

HealthLake supports SMART on FHIR V2 scopes for creating, reading, updating, deleting, and searching FHIR resources. For more information, see SMART on FHIR resource scopes for HealthLake.

  • SMART on FHIR V2 scopes are available to all HealthLake data stores created after 01/22/2025. If your data store was created before this date, you can submit a support ticket to have SMART on FHIR V2 scopes enabled. Create a case using AWS Support Center Console. To create your case, log in to your AWS account and choose Create case.

January 22, 2025

FHIR US Core Profile, version 6.1.0

HealthLake supports version 6.1.0 of the FHIR US Core Profile. For more information, see FHIR profile validations for HealthLake.

January 22, 2025

FHIR $export with GET

HealthLake supports FHIR $export with GET. For more information, see Exporting HealthLake data with FHIR $export.

January 22, 2025

Refactored Developer Guide with tested code examples

HealthLake introduces a refactored Developer Guide with tested code examples for native AWS CLI and AWS SDK actions. In addition, procedures are now available for all supported FHIR API interactions. For more information, see Code examples and Managing FHIR resources.

December 18, 2024

FHIR history and vread interactions

HealthLake supports the FHIR history interaction for retrieving the history of a particular resource and the vread interaction for performing a version-specific read of a resource. For more information, see Reading FHIR resource history.

  • FHIR resource history is enabled by default to all HealthLake data stores created after 10/25/2024. If your data store was created before this date, you can submit a support ticket to have FHIR history interaction enabled. Create a case using AWS Support Center Console. To create your case, log in to your AWS account and choose Create case.

October 25, 2024

FHIR Patient/$everything operation

HealthLake supports the FHIR Patient/$everything operation for searching a Patient resource and all its related resources. Using this operation, you can access a patient's entire record or download Patient data in bulk. For more information, see Getting patient data with Patient/$everything.

  • FHIR Patient/$everything is enabled by default to all HealthLake data stores created after 02/27/2024. If your data store was created before this date, you can submit a support ticket to have the Patient/$everything operation enabled. Create a case using AWS Support Center Console. To create your case, log in to your AWS account and choose Create case.

February 27, 2024

FHIR VerificationResult resource

HealthLake supports the FHIR VerificationResult resource type for describing validation requirements, sources, status, and dates for one or more elements. For more information, see FHIR R4 resource types for HealthLake.

December 9, 2023

FHIR $export operation

HealthLake supports the FHIR $export operation for exporting health data in bulk from an HealthLake data store. For more information, see Exporting HealthLake data with FHIR $export.

  • FHIR $export is enabled by default to all HealthLake data stores created after June 1, 2023. If your data store was created before this date, you can submit a support ticket to have the $export operation enabled. Create a case using AWS Support Center Console. To create your case, log in to your AWS account and choose Create case.

  • HealthLake data stores created prior to 06/01/23 support only $export job requests for system-wide exports.

  • HealthLake data stores created prior to 06/01/23 do not support getting the status of an FHIR $export using a GET request on the data store's endpoint.

June 1, 2023

SMART on FHIR support

HealthLake adds support for SMART on FHIR authorization. For more information, see SMART on FHIR support for AWS HealthLake.

May 31, 2023

FHIR profile validations

HealthLake supports FHIR profile validations for defining specific resource type definitions using constraints and/or extensions on base resource types. For more information, see Profile validations.

May 31, 2023

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region

HealthLake is available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. For more information, see Service endpoints.

April 4, 2023

Natural language processing turned off by default

HealthLake turned off integrated natural language processing (NLP) on all data stores as of February 20, 2023. You can submit a support ticket to have integrated NLP functionality turned on. Create a case using AWS Support Center Console. To create your case, log in to your AWS account and choose Create case. To learn more about integrated NLP, see Integrating NLP with HealthLake.

February 20, 2023

SQL index and query with Amazon Athena

HealthLake supports querying FHIR data with SQL using Amazon Athena. For more information, see Querying HealthLake data with Amazon Athena.

  • SQL query functionality is enabled by default to all HealthLake data stores created after 11/14/2022. If your data store was created before this date, you can submit a support ticket to have SQL query functionality enabled. Create a case using AWS Support Center Console. To create your case, log in to your AWS account and choose Create case.

  • With SQL query functionality, IAM settings to access HealthLake must be updated. To both create HealthLake data stores and grant access to them in Athena, you must have the AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin managed policy added to your IAM user, group, or role. You can use the AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin policy to create data lake administrators and grant access to data stores in Athena. For more information, see Configure an IAM user or role.

November 14, 2022

Total import job size increased

HealthLake updates the Total import job size for a StartFHIRImportJob request to 500 GB. For more information, see Service quotas.

October 3, 2022

FHIR Bundle resource

HealthLake supports the FHIR Bundle resource type for processing multiple FHIR resources simultaneously. For more information, see Bundling FHIR resources.

August 5, 2022

Quota updates for FHIR interactions

HealthLake updates quotas for FHIR resource management interactions. For more information, see Service quotas.

July 16, 2022

FHIR _include search parameter

HealthLake adds support for the FHIR _include search parameter to return additional resources in a search request. For more information, see Advanced search parameters.

July 16, 2022

AWS HealthLake is generally available

HealthLake is generally available in all supported regions. For more information, see Service endpoints.

July 15, 2021

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