What is Ilhealth Mcp

ILHealth-mcp is an MCP server that provides access to the Israeli Ministry of Health data dashboard APIs, facilitating easy access to various health-related information.

Use cases

Use cases include analyzing hospital service quality, conducting health surveys, and providing insights into public health trends.

How to use

To use ILHealth-mcp, install the server by cloning the repository, setting up a virtual environment, and running the server using methods compatible with Visual Studio Code or Claude AI Assistant.

Key features

Key features include access to diverse health subjects such as Medical Services, Health Services Quality, War Casualties, and more, along with tools to retrieve available subjects and metadata.

Where to use

ILHealth-mcp can be used in healthcare analytics, research, and applications that require access to health data from the Israeli Ministry of Health.

Israel Health Data MCP Server

MCP server providing access to Israeli Ministry of Health data dashboard APIs.

See Israeli Health Ministry Dashboard.

Description

This project provides a FastMCP server that interfaces with Israel’s ministry of health data.
Allowing easy access to information about hospitals’ quality of service, surveys and much more.

It serves as a bridge between the MOH API and MCP clients.

Requirements

• Python 3.10 or higher
• uv package manager

Installation

git clone <repository-url>
cd ILHealth-mcp
uv venv
.venv\Scripts\activate
uv pip install -r pyproject.toml
uv lock

Usage

Install and run the server using one of these methods:

1. For use with Visual Studio Code (using Copilot):
   
   Go to vscode/mcp.json and replace {YOUR-LOCAL-PATH} with the path you cloned the repo.
   
   VSCode should discover you server automatically.
   
   If that doesn’t work, make sure you enabled MCP & MCP.Discovery in vscode://settings/mcp.
   
   Make sure to enable agent mode in your vscode copilot.
   
   

2. For use with Claude AI Assistant:

fastmcp install server.py

3. For testing with MCP Inspector (Learn how at MCP Inspector):

fastmcp dev server.py

Available health subjects

The following subjects are available:

• Medical Services
• Health Services Quality
• War Casualties
• Child Checkup
• Child Development
• Beaches
• Health Funds (Insurance)

NCP Tools

get_available_subjects

Get a list of all available subject areas with descriptions.

get_metadata

Get metadata about available data endpoints for a specific subject.

get_data

Get specific data from an endpoint.

get_links

Get relevant links and documentation for a subject area.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to help improve the Israel Health Data MCP server.

Whether you want to add new tools, enhance existing functionality, or improve documentation, your input is valuable.

For examples of other MCP servers and implementation patterns, see the Model Context Protocol servers repository.

License

MIT License

See the LICENSE file for details.