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Why healthcareskills

Healthcare software has a higher bar than most domains — HIPAA violations carry real fines, HL7 message errors delay patient care, and hallucinated drug dosing is dangerous. General-purpose AI agents don't know the difference between a FHIR R4 Patient.name.use value set and a free-text field. These skills do.

healthcareskills gives your agent accurate, up-to-date knowledge of FHIR R4/R5, HL7 v2, DICOM, HIPAA/HITECH, CDS Hooks, SMART on FHIR, ICD-10/SNOMED/LOINC, and 80+ more healthcare standards and regulations. The healthcare-context skill anchors every other skill to your specific org, patient population, EHR vendor, and regulatory jurisdiction — so advice is never generic.

Important: These skills are tools for software engineering in healthcare. They are not a substitute for clinical, legal, or regulatory advice, and they do not generate medical advice for patients. See AGENTS.md for safety rules.

How skills work together

healthcare-context is the foundation — every skill reads it first to understand your organization before offering guidance.

                        ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
                        │          healthcare-context          │
                        │    (read by all skills first)        │
                        └──────────────────┬───────────────────┘
                                           │
   ┌──────────┬───────────┬────────────────┼────────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
   ▼          ▼           ▼                ▼            ▼          ▼          ▼
Clinical   Interop    Compliance       Digital      Revenue    Public &   Patient
Informatics           & Security       Health       Cycle      Pop.       Experience

See each skill's Related Skills section for the full dependency map.

Install

Option 1 — Claude Code Plugin (recommended)

/plugin marketplace add aks-builds/healthcareskills
/plugin install healthcare-skills

Option 2 — MCP Server (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Zed, Windsurf, custom agents)

Add to your mcp_servers config (e.g. .mcp.json or claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "healthcare-skills": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["github:aks-builds/healthcareskills/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Or if you have it cloned locally:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "healthcare-skills": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/healthcareskills/mcp/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Option 3 — Clone and Copy

git clone https://github.com/aks-builds/healthcareskills.git
cp -r healthcareskills/skills/* .agents/skills/

Option 4 — Git Submodule

git submodule add https://github.com/aks-builds/healthcareskills.git .agents/healthcareskills

Usage

Once installed, ask your agent naturally:

"Help me design a FHIR R4 integration for our patient portal"
→ fhir_validate + patient-portal + smart-on-fhir

"Do a HIPAA risk analysis on this architecture diagram"
→ hipaa_checklist + healthcare-cybersecurity + audit-logging

"Set up an EDI 837 claims submission flow"
→ billing-claims + medical-coding

"Build a CDS Hook that warns on drug-drug interactions"
→ clinical-decision-support + medication-reconciliation + terminology-services

"Is our ambient scribe compliant with HIPAA and FDA SaMD rules?"
→ ambient-clinical-intelligence + fda-samd + hipaa_checklist

Or invoke skills directly:

/fhir-integration
/hipaa-compliance
/ehr-integration
/clinical-ai-ml

MCP tool calls (any MCP host):

fhir_validate({ resource: "Patient", payload: { ... } })
hipaa_checklist({ component: "audit-logging", context: "patient portal" })
hl7_troubleshoot({ message_type: "ADT^A01", error: "MSH segment missing" })

Available Skills

Skill Categories

Foundation

• healthcare-context — Org/patient/jurisdiction/EHR context — every other skill reads this first

Clinical Informatics & EHR

• ehr-integration · clinical-decision-support · clinical-documentation · cpoe-orders · smart-on-fhir · medication-reconciliation

Interoperability

• fhir-integration · hl7-v2 · dicom-imaging · cda-ccda · ihe-profiles · terminology-services · tefca-hie
• New: fhir-shorthand · fhir-subscriptions · fhir-bulk-data · ncpdp-pharmacy · smart-health-cards · omop-cdm · direct-trust-messaging · fhirpath-cql

Compliance & Security

• hipaa-compliance · phi-handling · healthcare-cybersecurity · 21-cfr-part-11 · gdpr-health-data · hitrust-csf · audit-logging
• New: cms-interoperability-rules · information-blocking · ehr-certification-uscdi · 42-cfr-part-2 · nist-csf-healthcare · soc2-healthcare · fedramp-healthcare

Digital Health & AI/ML

• telehealth-platform · patient-portal · remote-patient-monitoring · wearables-integration · clinical-ai-ml · fda-samd · health-chatbots
• New: digital-therapeutics · mental-health-tech · care-coordination · social-determinants · care-plan-management · chronic-disease-management · ai-governance-healthcare · ambient-clinical-intelligence · nlp-clinical-text · digital-pathology · predictive-analytics-clinical · clinical-llm-safety

Revenue Cycle & Operations

• medical-coding · billing-claims · prior-authorization · value-based-care
• New: revenue-cycle-analytics · credentialing · remittance-processing · population-health-programs

Public & Population Health

• public-health-reporting · population-health-analytics · clinical-research

Patient Experience

• health-content-writing · patient-engagement · accessibility-healthcare
• New: patient-matching-mpi · consent-management · health-equity-analytics

Cloud & Engineering

• New: healthcare-cloud-aws · healthcare-cloud-azure · healthcare-cloud-gcp · healthcare-devops · healthcare-observability · healthcare-microservices

Data & Analytics

• health-data-lake
• New: clinical-data-warehouse · real-world-evidence · synthetic-patient-data · fhir-analytics · healthcare-data-quality

Specialized / Cross-cutting

• medical-imaging-ai · genomics-precision-medicine
• New: oncology-informatics · pharmacy-informatics · laboratory-informatics · behavioral-health · genomics-data-standards · decentralized-clinical-trials · healthcare-iot · voice-healthcare · ar-vr-healthcare

Repository layout

healthcareskills/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   ├── plugin.json            Claude Code plugin manifest
│   └── marketplace.json       Claude plugin marketplace entry
├── mcp/
│   ├── index.js               MCP server entrypoint
│   ├── loader.js              SKILL.md parser + skill-graph resolver
│   └── manifest.js            Generates tool manifest from all skills
├── skills/
│   └── skill-name/
│       ├── SKILL.md           Skill instructions (v2 frontmatter)
│       ├── evals/
│       │   └── evals.json     5–6 eval scenarios (CI-benchmarked)
│       └── references/        Optional deep-dive docs loaded on demand
├── AGENTS.md                  Guidelines for AI agents working in this repo
├── CLAUDE.md                  Claude Code reminders
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── SECURITY.md
└── VERSIONS.md

Contributing

PRs and issues welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md — note the elevated bar for safety and accuracy in healthcare content. Clinical claims, regulatory references, and standard field values must be verified before merging.

License

MIT — use these however you want, but verify before relying on them in safety-critical clinical systems.