Photon Health MCP by usefulapi MCP Server

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Photon Health MCP by usefulapi is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 21 tools. Last commit 10 Oct 2026.

Read Photon Health patients, prescriptions, orders, pharmacies and medications; screen interactions.

Uptime history 4 days of history

4 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

101 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 10 Oct 2026

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

9 Oct a tool changed version4 times that day

and 3 more, back to 9 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Photon Health MCP by usefulapi every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add photon-health --transport http https://photon-health.usefulapi.io/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "photon-health": {
      "url": "https://photon-health.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.photon-health]
url = "https://photon-health.usefulapi.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "photon-health": {
      "url": "https://photon-health.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "photon-health": {
      "url": "https://photon-health.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 21

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

photonhealth

photonhealth_get_catalog

Get one treatment catalog by id with its treatments and prescription templates (quantity, refills, days supply, directions). Photon GraphQL: catalog.

photonhealth_get_fill

Get one fill (a single dispensing of a prescription within an order) by id: state (SCHEDULED, NEW, SENT, CANCELED), requested/filled times, medication, prescription and order. Photon GraphQL: fill.

photonhealth_get_medication_by_ndc

Find the medication matching a package NDC (11-digit National Drug Code). Photon GraphQL (clinical API): medicationFromNdc.

photonhealth_get_order

Get one order by id: state, patient, pharmacy, address, fulfillment status/tracking and its fills. Photon GraphQL: order.

photonhealth_get_organization

Get the Photon organization these API keys belong to: id, name, type, NPI, address and contact details. Photon GraphQL (clinical API): organization.

photonhealth_get_patient

Get one patient by Photon id, with allergies, medication history, preferred pharmacies, and their prescriptions and orders (ids + states). Photon GraphQL: patient.

photonhealth_get_pharmacy

Get one pharmacy by Photon id: name, NPI, NCPDP, address, phone, fax and fulfillment types. Photon GraphQL: pharmacy.

photonhealth_get_prescription

Get one prescription by id: state, prescriber, patient, medication (with RxCUI/NDC codes), quantity, refills and fills remaining, days supply, directions, notes, diagnoses, dates and fills. Photon GraphQL: prescription.

photonhealth_list_catalogs

List the organization's treatment catalogs (the medications it prescribes) with their treatments and prescription templates. Photon GraphQL: catalogs.

photonhealth_list_dispense_units

List the dispense units Photon accepts on a prescription (e.g. Each, Milliliter, Tablet). Photon GraphQL: dispenseUnits.

photonhealth_list_medication_packages

List the packages (package NDCs) of a PRODUCT-level medication from list_medication_products. Photon GraphQL: medicationPackages.

photonhealth_list_medication_products

List the prescribable products (strength + form) of a DRUG-level medication from search_medications. Photon GraphQL: medicationProducts.

photonhealth_list_orders

List pharmacy orders, filterable by patient and state (ROUTING, PENDING, PLACED, COMPLETED, CANCELED, ERROR). Each has the pharmacy, delivery address, fulfillment (type, state, carrier, tracking number) and fills. Photon GraphQL: orders.

photonhealth_list_patients

List the organization's patients (id, external id, name, date of birth, sex, contact, address), optionally filtered by name. Photon GraphQL: patients.

photonhealth_list_prescriptions

List the organization's prescriptions, filterable by patient, prescriber and state (ACTIVE, EXPIRED, DEPLETED, CANCELED). Each has the medication, quantity, refills/fills remaining, directions, diagnoses and fills. Photon GraphQL: prescriptions.

photonhealth_list_users

List the organization's users (prescribers and staff): id, name, email, NPI, credentials and roles — use an id as prescriber_id in list_prescriptions. Photon GraphQL (clinical API): users.

photonhealth_screen_interactions

Screen proposed medications for a patient against drug-drug and drug-allergy (and diagnosis) interactions, using the patient's allergies, medication history and existing prescriptions. READ-ONLY: nothing is written or prescribed. Returns alerts with type (DRUG, ALLERGEN, CONDITION), severity (MINOR, MODERATE, MAJOR), a description and the involved medications/allergens. Photon GraphQL (clinical API): prescriptionScreen.

photonhealth_search_allergens

Search Photon's allergen list by name (fuzzy), e.g. to map a patient's reported allergy to an allergen id/RxCUI. Photon GraphQL: allergens.

photonhealth_search_medical_equipment

Search prescribable medical equipment/supplies (e.g. glucose test strips) by name. Photon GraphQL: medicalEquipment.

photonhealth_search_medications

Search Photon's medication database by drug name (partial) or code (RxCUI, NDC or SKU). Returns DRUG-level concepts with RxCUI/NDC codes, schedule, controlled flag, strength and form; drill down with list_medication_products / list_medication_packages. Photon GraphQL: medications.

photonhealth_search_pharmacies

Search pharmacies by name and/or near a location (latitude/longitude + radius in miles), by fulfillment type (PICK_UP = retail, MAIL_ORDER). Returns NPI, NCPDP, address, phone, fax. Photon GraphQL: pharmacies.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://photon-health.usefulapi.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	71 ms	11 min ago

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Photon Health MCP by usefulapi — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Photon Health MCP by usefulapi do?

It exposes 21 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: photonhealth_get_catalog, photonhealth_get_fill, photonhealth_get_medication_by_ndc, photonhealth_get_order, photonhealth_get_organization, photonhealth_get_patient and 15 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Photon Health MCP by usefulapi working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 101 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Photon Health MCP by usefulapi?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Photon Health MCP by usefulapi need an API key?

No. Photon Health MCP by usefulapi completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 21 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Photon Health MCP by usefulapi?

It answers our handshake in 101 ms on average, which is faster than 85% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Photon Health MCP by usefulapi open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.