Healthcare MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing AI assistants with access to healthcare data and medical information tools, including FDA drug info

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What is the Healthcare MCP server?

Connect Healthcare to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing AI assistants with access to healthcare data and medical information tools, including FDA drug info, PubMed, medRxiv, NCBI Bookshelf, clinical trials, ICD-10, DICOM metadata, and a medical. The healthcare mcp server is what makes that connection.

What the server does

Healthcare MCP Server is a specialized Node.js server that implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to provide AI assistants with access to healthcare data and medical information tools. It enables AI models to retrieve accurate, up-to-date medical information from authoritative sources. This repository provides a single DXT package containing the complete Node.js implementation.

  • FDA Drug Information — Search and retrieve comprehensive drug information from the FDA database (improved response parsing)
  • PubMed Research — Search medical literature from PubMed's database of scientific articles
  • Health Topics — Access evidence-based health information from Health.gov (updated to API v4)
  • Clinical Trials — Search for ongoing and completed clinical trials (updated API parameters)
  • Medical Terminology — Look up ICD-10 codes and medical terminology definitions
  • medRxiv Search — Search for pre-print articles on medRxiv

Installation

@smithery/cli on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.

Worth knowing first

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Where it fits

Among the database access options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. It is maintained by Cicatriiz; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.

How to install the Healthcare MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "healthcare-mcp-public": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@smithery/cli"]
    }
  }
}

Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.

Frequently asked questions

It uses publicly available APIs: FDA OpenFDA, PubMed E-utilities, Health.gov API, ClinicalTrials.gov API, and NLM Clinical Table Search Service for ICD-10-CM.