--- title: "AWS Labs HealthImaging: review, setup & limitations · Undominated.ai" canonical: https://undominated.ai/mcp-servers/awslabs-healthimaging/ description: "Searches and manages medical imaging datastores, image sets and DICOM lifecycle operations." --- # AWS Labs HealthImaging: review, setup & limitations · Undominated.ai > Searches and manages medical imaging datastores, image sets and DICOM lifecycle operations. [← Explore all mcp servers](/mcp-servers/) AWS DATA SERVICES / AWS Labs # AWS Labs HealthImaging Searches and manages medical imaging datastores, image sets and DICOM lifecycle operations. [See setup guidance ↓](#setup)[Original source ↗](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp) SOURCE REVIEW Reviewed 2026-10-14 Evidence 7 linked sources Publisher AWS Labs Licence [Apache-2.0 ↗](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/LICENSE) Revision 8840003820a7 [Read what was—and wasn’t—checked ↓](#review) “The AWS HealthImaging MCP Server enables AI assistants to interact with AWS HealthImaging services through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).” [AWS Labs · upstream description ↗](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/src/healthimaging-mcp-server/README.md) Our analysis follows below. 01 / THE REASONING ## Why this made the selection. - Specialized publisher integration with documented IAM and data access boundaries. - Inspect image-set metadata and import-job status in an authorized test datastore. - The catalogue does not already have src/healthimaging-mcp-server/README.md. - The README documents irreversible image-set deletion and patient-study deletion, and the install examples do not pass a read-only flag. ### A good fit for - Inspect image-set metadata and import-job status in an authorized test datastore. - Review a carefully scoped imaging lifecycle change with explicit patient/study identifiers. - Inspecting HealthImaging metadata only after the caller withholds the delete tools the README lists ### Weigh up before choosing - The inspected server registers destructive datastore, study, series, instance and bulk-deletion tools without a global read-only startup gate. Use read-only IAM for inspection. - Returned metadata and image frames can contain patient information; publisher HIPAA considerations are not compliance certification of this client deployment. - Import/export operations require appropriate S3 locations and service roles; metadata modification or deletion can affect multiple records. - The monorepo now recommends Agent Toolkit for AWS for production. This specialized local server remains documented; its leaf and root documentation were checked for deprecation. - This review did not execute the resource. - Pinning commit 8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464 does not verify transitive dependencies. - No read-only flag appears in the README. The pip line and the uvx JSON do not disable delete_image_set, delete_patient_studies, or bulk_delete_by_criteria. - The only occurrence of stdio is inside the VS Code install-badge URL as an encoded type field. The Linux JSON block does not set type. - The license section says Apache License, Version 2.0. The repository LICENSE text is Apache License Version 2.0. 02 / THE REVIEW RECORD ## What we actually inspected. Source review has boundaries. A clear record is more useful than a “safe” badge. ### Material inspected - src/healthimaging-mcp-server/README.md - src/healthimaging-mcp-server/pyproject.toml - src/healthimaging-mcp-server/awslabs/healthimaging_mcp_server/server.py - Root README.md and LICENSE - LICENSE ### Our findings - Pinned server.py has unconditional tool registrations for create_datastore, delete_datastore, bulk_delete_by_criteria and retrieval operations. No read-only argument was identified in its startup. - The overview says 39 specialized tools, and a later sentence says 39 tools in eight categories. It also says 21 standard API operations and 18 advanced DICOM operations, which sum to 39. - Counted in this file, the eight category headings sum to 36. The bullet lines under them sum to 38: Datastore Management says 4 tools and lists 3, and Data Analysis Operations says 8 tools and lists 11. The other six headings match their bullet counts. - delete_image_set is marked IRREVERSIBLE. delete_patient_studies, delete_study, and bulk_delete_by_criteria are also listed. The word readonly does not appear, and read-only does not appear. ### Not established by this review - Server startup, authentication, live tool execution and security isolation were not tested. - Published package/container parity with a source revision and hosted implementation internals were not tested. - The resource was not executed and its tools were not called. - No HealthImaging API call was made. - The tool bullets were counted in the README and were not listed from a running server. The review applies to the material and revision named here. A newer upstream release can change its behavior. 03 / PUT IT TO WORK ## Connect a server deliberately. [Upstream setup instructions ↗](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/src/healthimaging-mcp-server/README.md) DOCUMENTED COMMAND uvx awslabs.healthimaging-mcp-server@latest Copy command ↗ Copying does not execute this command. It may retrieve a newer version than the reviewed source. - Configure a read-only AWS role and the intended HealthImaging region before first connection. - List and inspect the exact datastore/image-set identifiers; keep broad delete and bulk update operations outside routine diagnostics. - For an approved transfer or mutation review S3 destinations, role permissions, version selection and returned job status. ### Before you start - Python 3.10 or newer, uv/uvx and an MCP client that can launch a local stdio process. - An AWS account, configured credentials and access to the intended region and service resources. ### Documented configuration example Use the client and authentication context described in the setup guidance. Configuration formats vary between hosts. { "mcpServers": { "awslabs-healthimaging": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "awslabs.healthimaging-mcp-server@latest" ], "env": { "AWS_PROFILE": "YOUR_RESTRICTED_PROFILE", "AWS_REGION": "us-east-1" } } } } Copy configuration ↗ ### Compatibility Python 3.10 or newer, uv/uvx and an MCP client that can launch a local stdio process. · An AWS account, configured credentials and access to the intended region and service resources. · Cursor · VS Code · Kiro · Cline ### Implementation Python · python ### Transports stdio ### AWS data services - Reads imaging content and, where IAM permits, creates/deletes datastores, edits metadata, transfers DICOM data and performs bulk deletions. - List and search datastores and image sets - Create datastores, import and export DICOM, update metadata, and delete image sets or studies - Does not document an IAM user, role, group, policy, or access-key tool ### Cost model AWS service, model, query and storage charges apply; running the MCP process does not include those services. 04 / FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE ## The source trail. Our notes are separate from the original resource. Check upstream before adopting a new version. - [Publisher setup, capabilities and operating boundaries ↗](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/src/healthimaging-mcp-server/README.md) Checked 2026-10-14 https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/src/healthimaging-mcp-server/README.md Supports: summary, install, configExample, access, limitations, bestFor, review, compatibility, transports - [Pinned package and implementation ↗](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/src/healthimaging-mcp-server/pyproject.toml) Checked 2026-10-14 https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/src/healthimaging-mcp-server/pyproject.toml Supports: summary, install, configExample, access, limitations, bestFor, review, compatibility, transports - [Pinned package and implementation ↗](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/src/healthimaging-mcp-server/awslabs/healthimaging_mcp_server/server.py) Checked 2026-10-14 https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/src/healthimaging-mcp-server/awslabs/healthimaging_mcp_server/server.py Supports: summary, install, configExample, access, limitations, bestFor, review, compatibility, transports - [Pinned package and implementation ↗](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/README.md) Checked 2026-10-14 https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/README.md Supports: summary, install, configExample, access, limitations, bestFor, review, compatibility, transports - [Applicable licence ↗](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/LICENSE) Checked 2026-10-14 https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/LICENSE Supports: license - [HealthImaging MCP README ↗](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/src/healthimaging-mcp-server/README.md) Checked 2026-10-14 https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/src/healthimaging-mcp-server/README.md Supports: tool-count mismatch and delete tools - [Repository LICENSE ↗](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/LICENSE) Checked 2026-10-14 https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/8840003820a78dd018561d55c7ab12fcdd708464/LICENSE Supports: Apache License Version 2.0 KEEP COMPARING ## Other approaches to consider. Related by category or shared topics. These are alternatives to inspect, not a measured quality order. [### AWS Labs Amazon Translate ↗ Translates text and manages document translation jobs and custom terminology with AWS Translate.](/mcp-servers/awslabs-translate/)[### AWS Labs Finch ↗ Builds and pushes container images through the local Finch CLI, with additional ECR repository support.](/mcp-servers/awslabs-finch/)[### AWS Labs HealthLake ↗ Discovers HealthLake datastores and reads or manages FHIR resources, with an explicit read-only mode.](/mcp-servers/awslabs-healthlake/) [AI Tools ↗](/tools/)[Skills ↗](/skills/)[Agents ↗](/agents/)[MCP Servers ↗](/mcp-servers/)[Workflows ↗](/workflows/) ## Continue your investigation - [Inspect resource evidence](/tools/) - [Choose a host](/agents/) - [Inspect reusable workflows](/skills/) - [Use Undominated data](/api/)