Healthlake

Amazon Healthlake is a HIPAA-eligible service that can be used to store, transform, query, and analyze large-scale health data. This enables health data to be ingested into Amorphic datasets and used for further downstream querying and analysis using the Query Engine.

Note

To use Healthlake, HCLS should be enabled in the environment.

How to create a Healthlake store?

1. Click on + New Healthlake.
2. Fill in the required fields (Details listed below).

Following fields are needed to create a Healthlake store:

• Store Name: The name for the Healthlake data store.
• Description: A brief description about the Healthlake data store.
• Keywords: Optional keywords for the Healthlake data store. This can be used to flag related stores.
• Preload Sample Data: Enable/disable preloading of sample data. After entering the details, click the Create button to initiate the Healthlake data store creation.

Healthlake Store details

Once the store creation is triggered, the store details will appear in the page in this format.

How to import data into Healthlake?

1. Under the Import Jobs tab, click on the + New Job button.
2. In the following form, specify a dataset which contains the data.

This is an asynchronous process and will take a while to complete.

If an import job only succeeds partially, then the failed files as well as the manifest file can be downloaded from the Job details tab, as shown below.

How to query Healthlake datasets?

1. Go to Analytics > Query Engine.
2. Generate a sample query by specifying the Healthlake Domain and desired dataset.

3. Click on the ⚙ icon and change workgroup to Amazon Athena Engine V3
4. Run the desired query.