Get comprehensive patient overview including demographics, conditions, and recent data
AI agents call get_patient_overview to retrieve information from Intelligent Medical Assistant without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves patient data (demographics, conditions, recent data) but does not modify, delete, or execute operations. It is categorized as Read. Severity is high because it accesses sensitive protected health information (PHI) including demographics and medical conditions; unauthorized access or misuse by an AI agent could lead to privacy violations and potential harm.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_patient_overview' and description 'Get comprehensive patient overview including demographics, conditions, and recent data' indicates retrieval of patient information without modification.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get comprehensive patient overview including demographics, conditions, and recent data. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Intelligent Medical Assistant MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Intelligent Medical Assistant MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_patient_overview: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Intelligent Medical Assistant. Nothing to install.
get_patient_overview is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get_patient_overview rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get_patient_overview. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get_patient_overview is provided by the Intelligent Medical Assistant MCP server (sp2learn/medical-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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