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You may notice when upgrading to IRIS For Health from 2024.1 to 2024.2+ (2025.1, 2026.1, etc.) that where you were previously accessing your FHIR Portal you are now receiving Not Found.
Developer required to join a team working with and extending an existing CACHE application and subsequent migration to IRIS.
4yrs Minimum experience.
Applicants must have good general knowledge of development approaches and patterns.
SQL
Opportunity from 6 Month contract to Permanent, depending on experience. Immediate start
Applications to chris.clipston@mtivity.com
Hi Community!
We have another great initiative for you to sink your teeth into! Following last year's resounding success, we're hosting a new edition of the Demo Games. But with a twist: our North American Sales Engineers have submitted their best demo videos, but this time, you're the ones to take part and win a prize.
Please welcome the North American Demo Showcase! 🎉
Hi everyone! 👋
I’m excited to share the project I’ve submitted to the current InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest — it’s called IRIStool and Data Manager, and you can find it on the InterSystems Open Exchange and on my GitHub page.
Since we reached two important milestones for Go developers working with InterSystems IRIS:
- The Wait Is Over: Welcome GoLang Support for InterSystems IRIS — where we unveiled the new go-irisnative driver, providing a native
database/sqlinterface for Go. - GORM Meets InterSystems IRIS: Introducing gorm-iris — where we showed how to integrate IRIS with GORM, one of the most popular Go ORM libraries.
Now it’s time to see everything working together.
To demonstrate how easily Go developers can adopt InterSystems IRIS, I took an existing production-grade open-source project — the RealWorld Example App — which showcases a full-stack Medium.com-style clone implemented with Go Fiber, GORM, and SQLite.
With just a few configuration tweaks, I swapped out SQLite for gorm-iris, keeping everything else unchanged. The result?
A fully functional Go + Fiber application powered by InterSystems IRIS — no code rewrites, no ORM gymnastics, just a different database backend.
You can find the complete working demo here: github.com/caretdev/golang-fiber-iris-realworld-example-app
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Hi Community,
Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:
⏯ Deploying Solutions Using Intersystems Package Manager @ Ready 2025
Introduction
In a previous article, I presented the IRIStool module, which seamlessly integrates the pandas Python library with the IRIS database. Now, I'm explaining how we can use IRIStool to leverage InterSystems IRIS as a foundation for intelligent, semantic search over healthcare data in FHIR format.
This article covers what I did to create the database for another of my projects, the FHIR Data Explorer. Both projects are candidates in the current InterSystems contest, so please vote for them if you find them useful.
You can find them at the Open Exchange:
In this article we'll cover:
- Connecting to InterSystems IRIS database through Python
- Creating a FHIR-ready database schema
- Importing FHIR data with vector embeddings for semantic search
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Get ready with these in-person and self-paced learning resources!
InterSystems IRIS globals are one of the platform's core strengths: they store hierarchical data in a direct, ordered, and efficient structure. But when working from Python, manipulating globals can sometimes feel closer to a low-level API than to the natural habits of the language.
The iris-global-reference project provides a Python layer on top of IRIS globals. Its goal is simple: make access to globals more readable, more idiomatic, and easier to integrate into modern Python code, without hiding the underlying hierarchical model.
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If one of your packages on OEX receives a review, you get notified by OEX only of YOUR own package.
The rating reflects the experience of the reviewer with the status found at the time of review.
It is kind of a snapshot and might have changed meanwhile.
Reviews by other members of the community are marked by * in the last column.
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Over the years, we keep monitoring Orphan Messages, and I have begun to notice the number of ACK/NCK's that do not match the Scheme in which the message was sent so it can't not align or signify that the message was OK. For example, if we send an ADT^A08 HL7 message to the vendor, and they send back a A08 instead of an ACK as the message type.
Currently our default is to have Save Replies on EnsLib.HL7.Operation set to IndexNotOk's.
Hello Community,
What is the most efficient, memory-safe way to get the names of the corrupted indexes on very large tables for a rebuild. However, if an index has millions of corrupted rows, the .errors array in %ValidateIndices grows too large and throws a errorerror.
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InterSystems is pleased to announce the general availability of:
- InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2026.1.0.237.3
- InterSystems IRIS for Health 2026.1.0.237.3
- HealthShare Health Connect 2026.1.0.237.3
This release adds support for the Ubuntu 26.04 operating system. Ubuntu 26.04 includes Linux kernel 7.0, security improvements, along with installer and user interface improvements.
We are only releasing IRIS for Intel/AMD (x86_64) processors at this time. We've seen occasional network problems on ARM servers.
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Hello everyone,
The InterSystems Learning Services Certification Team is pleased to announce the release of our second TrakCare / IntelliCare certification exam - the InterSystems EHR Integration Specialist exam. A big thank you to everyone in the community who helped us beta test!
The exam is now available for purchase and scheduling in the InterSystems exam catalog. Potential candidates can review the exam topics and the practice questions on the exam's homepage.
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Hello everyone,
The InterSystems Learning Services Certification Team is pleased to announce the release of the InterSystems CCR EHR Application Specialist exam. The exam is now available for purchase and scheduling in the InterSystems exam catalog.
This certification is intended for InterSystems EHR application specialists who use Tier 2 CCRs to manage and deploy configuration changes across environments. The content covers CCR fundamentals through Tier 2–specific topics.
Headache-free stored objects: a simple example of working with InterSystems Caché objects in ObjectScript and Python
Neuschwanstein Castle
Tabular data storages based on what is formally known as the relational data model will be celebrating their 50th anniversary in June 2020. Here is an official document – that very famous article. Many thanks for it to Doctor Edgar Frank Codd. By the way, the relational data model is on the list of the most important global innovations of the past 100 years published by Forbes.
On the other hand, oddly enough, Codd viewed relational databases and SQL as a distorted implementation of his theory. For general guidance, he created 12 rules that any relational database management system must comply with (there are actually 13 rules). Honestly speaking, there is zero DBMS's on the market that observes at least Rule 0. Therefore, no one can call their DBMS 100% relational :) If you know any exceptions, please let me know.
Hey Community!
We're happy to share the next video in the "Code to Care" series on our InterSystems Developers YouTube:
UPDATE: since version 0.0.4 of the extension was published on 2025-11-23 it is now possible to use gj :: configExplorer directly in VS Code on Windows.
In my previous article introducing gj :: configExplorer I flagged up how an apparent bug in the Windows elements of the Native API for Node.js means it's not currently available to run in VS Code on a Windows desktop. In a comment on that article I offered a workaround, but this requires a Docker-equipped Linux host you can SSH to.
If you don't have a suitable target it's now possible to leverage your local Windows Docker Desktop.
While working with external languages for IRIS (such as Python and Node.js), one of the first things you must accomplish is making a connection to an IRIS instance.
For instance, to make a connection in python (from https://pypi.org/project/intersystems-irispython/):
import iris
# Open a connection to the server
args = {
'hostname':'127.0.0.1',
'port': 1972,
'namespace':'USER',
'username':'username',
'password':'password'
}
conn = iris.connect(**args)
# Create an iris object
irispy = iris.createIRIS(conn)
# Create a global array in the USER namespace on the server
irispy.set("myGlobal", "hello world!")
Hi Community,
Do you build and manage applications with InterSystems IRIS SQL?
🎓Two tiers of certifications—specialist and professional (new!)—are now available!
What logging and auditing strategies are commonly recommended for InterSystems IRIS environments?
I’m interested in learning about best practices for tracking user activity, troubleshooting issues, monitoring integrations, and maintaining compliance in enterprise or healthcare systems.
Are there built-in tools or external integrations that work especially well for this purpose?
Hi Community,
Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:
⏯ New User Experiences with InterSystems IRIS Business Intelligence @ Ready 2025
Hi Community!
It's time to celebrate our 18 fellow members who took part in the latest InterSystems Technical Article Contest and wrote
The competition brought together outstanding publications, each showcasing expertise and innovation. With so many high-quality submissions, selecting the best was a true challenge for the judges.
Let's meet the winners and look at their articles:
I’m looking for recommendations to improve interoperability performance in InterSystems IRIS, especially when handling large volumes of HL7 or healthcare-related messages.
What are the best practices for optimizing productions, business services, operations, and message processing performance? I’d also like to know if there are recommended monitoring tools or settings commonly used in production environments.
I’m currently working with REST APIs in InterSystems IRIS and would like to better understand the recommended security practices for production environments.
I’m especially interested in:
- Authentication and authorization methods
- Token management strategies
- Role-based access control
- API gateway recommendations
- Encryption and secure communication practices
- Monitoring and logging for API activity
I would also appreciate learning about common mistakes to avoid when deploying APIs publicly or integrating with external systems.
What approaches or tools have worked best in your environments?
I'm running a shell script and the q isn't exiting the screen. this is RHEL 7.9 I used to issue in VMS just fine but we have found that Linux scripts behave different. after these run I search the file for the status and depending on what it comes back with it will send an email.
if someone has anything better I'm listening
thanks
Paul
#!/bin/bash
TO_DAY=$(date +%A)
echo "Today is $TO_DAY"
#
touch /temp/CHECK_MIRROR_RPT.TXT
#
exec > /temp/CHECK_MIRROR_RPT.TXT
#
cache -U "%SYS" "Monitor^MIRROR"
q
#
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⏯️ IRIS Agents
A Python framework for building and orchestrating AI agents on InterSystems IRIS.
🗣 Presenter: @Suprateem Banerjee, Sales Engineer at InterSystems
When managing critical healthcare data through an integration engine you want to know the moment a queue starts backing up or a service drops.
Unfortunately, this usually leads to an email inbox stuffed full of notifications that can sometimes seem impossible to maintain.
Well, I’ve not solved that problem.
But I have created something that could help...
I’m looking for practical recommendations to monitor InterSystems IRIS performance in a production environment. What are the most useful built-in tools, metrics, or best practices to track system health, database performance, and possible bottlenecks?
I would also like to know if there are recommended dashboards, logs, or monitoring integrations commonly used by the community.
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