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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.
InterSystems is pleased to announce the general availability of:
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.
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.
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.
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:
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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What's the most straight-forward way to install this on an offline server? I'm trying to set this up on an Azure DevOps server to support our CI/CD pipelines. I've tried using zpm installing the tgz from the local filesystem. I note zpm seems to need a repo configured to install but I can't work out how to setup a bare-bones Filesystem repo (please point me to some documentation on this). I have no idea what I'm doing...
I’m excited to share the project I’ve submitted to the current InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest — it’s called FHIR Data Explorer with Hybrid Search and AI Summaries, and you can find it on the InterSystems Open Exchange and on my GitHub page.
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⏯️ ExplantIQ: Ask Your Compliance Data Anything
ExplantIQ is an intelligent data application that tackles one of healthcare's most overlooked financial and regulatory risks: the management of explanted medical device warranty credits. When an implanted device is removed from a patient (due to failure or recall) hospitals are legally required to pursue manufacturer credits, refund payers if the credit exceeds 50% of the device's cost, and report to CMS. Miss that obligation and you're facing a reverse False Claims Act violation. Industry data shows hospitals miss 81% of eligible credits.
ExplantIQ, built entirely on InterSystems IRIS for Health and DeepSee, solves this by unifying clinical, supply chain, billing, and FDA recall data into a single real-time compliance dashboard, complete with KPI scorecards, trend analytics, and a Text-to-SQL AI Assistant that lets compliance officers query live operational data in plain English. No separate BI tool. No additional architecture. All questions can be answered without leaving your browser tab.
Special thanks to @Emil Polakiewicz and @Boris Mamkin for their contributions.
🗣 Presenter: @Alyssa Ross, Sales Engineer at InterSystems
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⏯️ Health Galaxy: AI-Enabling Healthcare Applications
Health Galaxy creates an AI access point on top of any FHIR server, bringing healthcare into the AI future that has become a reality for many other industries.
🗣 Presenter: @Zelong Wang, Sales Engineer at InterSystems
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⏯️ HL7 Validation Error Profiler: Rapid Insights into Batch HL7 Data Quality Issues
This demo highlights how HL7 validation logs can be transformed into scalable, actionable data quality insights using a lightweight application built on top of Health Connect.
Special thanks to @Henry Wojnicki for his contributions to designing and refining the application workflow.
🗣 Presenter: @Lynn Wu, Sales Engineer at InterSystems
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We are using IRIS for Health to develop an agentic AI chatbot workflow that can interact with a patient using voice commands, reach out to an EHR or other system for context, and provide recommendations back.
Presenters:
🗣 @Vic Sun, Sales Engineer at InterSystems
🗣 @Brad Nissenbaum, Sales Engineer at InterSystems
🗣 Danielle Micciantuono, Clinical Solutions Specialist at InterSystems
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⏯️ AI Assistants for the Unified Care Record Powered by Gemini
In this demo, you will see how Gemini works directly with FHIR data, and how it leverages the harmonized dataset provided by InterSystems Unified Care Record. It also showcases multiple AI assistants helping multiple groups of users, e.g. clinicians, patients.
🗣 Presenter: @Simon Sha, Sales Architect at InterSystems
When building a Production, should I create separate message classes for each integration flow, or is it acceptable to reuse generic request/response classes across different Business Operations? I'm trying to understand how to keep things organized as the number of integrations grows.
What is the recommended way to handle errors inside a Business Process in IRIS? Should I use Try/Catch within the BPL, return error responses to the caller, or rely on the built-in retry mechanism of the Production? Looking for guidance on what's considered good practice.
