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