An open-source tool from New York-based Healthie can help developers build healthcare apps faster and more intuitively.

Healthie Dev Assist connects the firm’s GraphQL API to AI assistants via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

The AI-integrated developer assistant enables health tech teams to build with the Healthie API faster. Built on top of the MCP, Dev Assist brings AI-native tooling directly into development environments such as Claude, Cursor and VS Code.

“Dev Assist turns integration into a seamless experience, so teams can instantly start building solutions that raise the standard of care,” said Max Tyroler, director at Healthie. “This launch marks the beginning of Healthie’s goal to deliver AI-powered tools that matter for developers, clinicians and patients alike.”

Dev Assist is one of the first tools to embrace the MCP, an open standard that allows AI assistants to connect directly to live data sources and development environments. As AI systems become more powerful, they remain limited by one critical flaw: isolation from real-world data. MCP addresses this by enabling secure, two-way connections between AI tools and data repositories through a universal protocol.

With MCP, developers can expose data via lightweight servers that any AI tool or MCP client can access. This architecture replaces fragmented, one-off integrations with a scalable, standardised layer for connectivity. Dev Assist uses MCP to serve GraphQL schema and real-time documentation into AI environments, enabling faster onboarding, query generation and debugging.

“We built Healthie Dev Assist to empower developers to move as fast as the technology around them,” said Cavan Klinsky, CTO of Healthie. “By bridging our GraphQL API with AI-native tools like Claude and VS Code, we’re removing friction and enabling a new level of developer productivity in healthcare. AI-assisted development is reshaping how products are built, and healthcare shouldn’t be left behind. With Dev Assist, anyone building with Healthie can access the same AI tooling and schema insights our internal engineering team uses every day.”

Dev Assist is part of a broader push towards AI-native infrastructure for healthcare. As more health tech companies adopt GraphQL and event-driven architectures, AI-assisted development becomes not only possible but essential. By making Healthie’s robust API accessible to Claude, VS Code and other MCP-enabled tools, Dev Assist lowers the barrier to entry for developers and enables faster iteration, integration and innovation.

“Healthie Dev Assist made it easy to generate GraphQL queries from natural language,” said Bruno Ferrari, head of innovation at Florida-based Light-it (lightit.io), a Healthie partner. “Setup was smooth, and it’s especially helpful for new developers working with Healthie’s API. The Cursor integration worked seamlessly and handled our project context with impressive accuracy.”

Tyroler added: “Bringing Dev Assist to the community was an easy call: innovation in healthcare moves fastest when the right tools are in everyone’s hands. By pairing MCP with our GraphQL API, development teams can quickly ship new capabilities and translate that speed into better patient care.”

Dev Assist (github.com/healthie/healthie-dev-assist) is available as an open-source tool for any developer building in Healthie’s sandbox environment. Developers can explore the repository, connect with their preferred AI tools and start building in minutes.

Healthie (www.gethealthie.com) provides infrastructure to power healthcare delivery. Its API-first EHR, scheduling, and engagement products, coupled with the Healthie Harbor marketplace of integrations, make it easier for organisations of any size to launch and scale care delivery services. Healthie was designed for virtual-first, recurring and collaborative care.