I’m thrilled to share that after several years of deep diving into the InterSystems IRIS data platform, I have finally summarized my project experiences into a new book IRIS (Data Platform) Programming Technical Guide. It is published by Beihang University Press, a prestigious central-level comprehensive publisher renowned for its leading role in aerospace, science, and technology publishing.
Writing this book was a significant engineering challenge for me. My goal was to bridge the gap between "understanding the syntax" and "building a production-ready project.
I recently started using Cursor/VSCode with an IRIS container for development rather than Studio/Terminal. I've noticed that whenever I use %G (so basically all the time), when I exit %G, the terminal window simply closes, rather than returning me to my usual namespace prompt. %G also does not retain the command stack like it does in old school terminal, so I'm forced to constantly retype every global reference. Anyone figured out a solution to this? It's a relatively minor problem in the grand scheme of things, but a time consuming and irritating one.
Create an operational data store using the data flowing through your production. Create user-defined analytics tables based on fields and paths to their data from incoming documents with varying standards (FHIR, CDA, HL7v2, etc.).
Welcome to another installment of the Platforms Update. A few notables to highlight:
Ubuntu 26.04 has been released, and corresponding IRIS support is coming soon.
IRIS 2026.2 will bring an end to support for Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10.
Revised minimum CPU specifications are in effect for 2025.3+
For those newly acquainted with these communications, this update provides details about recent enhancements as well as anticipated changes based on current information; however, future projections remain uncertain and the content should not be interpreted as a definitive product roadmap.
Today, coding assistants like Claude, GitHub Copilot and Cursor have transformed the way developers write code. However, these tools are limited by being isolated from the systems and data sources that developers work with daily. This limitation can be overcome through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard designed to connect AI assistants to external data sources and tools in a secure and standardized way.
In this review article, we'll explore the current state-of-the-art regarding the MCP within the InterSystems ecosystem.
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.
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...
zpm:%SYS>install f:/tmp/zpm-registry-1.3.4.tgz
ERROR! 'tmp' not found in any repository.
zpm:%SYS>install zpm-registry-1.3.4.tgz
ERROR! 'zpm-registry-1.3.4.tgz' not found in any repository.
zpm:%SYS>install zpm-registry
ERROR! 'zpm-registry' not found in any repository.
zpm:%SYS>install "f:\tmp\zpm-registry-1.3.4.tgz"
ERROR! 'f:\tmp\zpm-registry-1.3.4.tgz' not found in any repository.
zpm:%SYS>list
IPM (zpm) 0.10.6
zpm:%SYS>repo
1) Filesystem
2) ORAS
3) Remote Repository
Which sort of repository do you wish to configure? 1
Name: local
local
Source: F:\tmp\*
Enabled? Yes
Available? Yes
Use for Snapshots? Yes
Use for Prereleases? Yes
Is Read-Only? No
local
Source: F:\tmp\*
Enabled? Yes
Available? Yes
Use for Snapshots? Yes
Use for Prereleases? Yes
Is Read-Only? No
zpm:%SYS>install f:/tmp/zpm-registry-1.3.4.tgz
ERROR! 'tmp' not found in any repository.
zpm:%SYS>install zpm-registry-1.3.4.tgz
ERROR! 'zpm-registry-1.3.4.tgz' not found in any repository.
zpm:%SYS>install zpm-registry
ERROR! 'zpm-registry' not found in any repository.
zpm:%SYS>install "f:\tmp\zpm-registry-1.3.4.tgz"
ERROR! 'f:\tmp\zpm-registry-1.3.4.tgz' not found in any repository.
zpm:%SYS>info
Welcome to the Package Manager Shell (ZPM). Version: 0.10.6
Enter q/quit to exit the shell. Enter ?/help to view available commands
No registry configured
System Mode: <unset>
Mirror Status: NOTINIT
IRIS for Windows (x86-64) 2025.2 (Build 227U) Thu Jul 10 2025 11:01:07 EDT
Currently installed top-level modules are listed below:
IPM 0.10.6
This demo shows how InterSystems Health Gateway can be used to pull in outside patient records from networks like Carequality, CommonWell, and eHealth Exchange, creating a more complete longitudinal view in a clinical viewer. That full record is then analyzed by AI to surface potential rare disease considerations with clear reasoning, helping clinicians see patterns they might otherwise miss.
Presenters: 🗣 @Jesse Reffsin, Senior Sales Engineer at InterSystems 🗣 @Georgia Gans, Sales Engineer at InterSystems 🗣 @Annie Tong, Sales Engineer at InterSystems
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.
AI access: Health Galaxy gives AI agents a single gateway into any healthcare system, so they can pull patient data, schedule appointments, and check insurance automatically instead of a human doing it manually.
Ease of use: You point it at an existing FHIR endpoint, click a button, and it generates an MCP endpoint automatically from the capability statement.
FHIR: Since we are using FHIR, we can leverage both the storage and exchange capabilities of InterSystems IRIS.
🗣 Presenter: @Zelong Wang, Sales Engineer at InterSystems
At READY 2026, for the very first time, we held a customer hackathon — and it was an amazing experience! The hackathon took place on the pre-event day at 9 am. Some participants, like me, arrived early due to jet lag—but that actually helped us connect with fellow hackers before the event kicked off.
This article presents a straightforward approach to automatically and efficiently tune hyperparameters for machine learning models using Optuna as the optimisation framework. We explore how to use both Optuna’s native storage options and InterSystems IRIS as a database backend to track the progress of hyperparameter searches. We also show how MLflow can be used to monitor experiments and manage models through its tracking and model registry UI.
This article is based on this Kaggle Notebook, which you can run and directly edit yourself.
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
Data privacy regulations such as GDPR, LGPD, and HIPAA demand that organizations know exactly where Personally Identifiable Information (PII) lives inside their databases. Yet in practice, most teams rely on manual inventories, tribal knowledge, or external scanning tools that require data to leave the database engine — a process that itself creates privacy and security risks.
This article presents an MVP that takes a different approach: it runs PII detection inside InterSystems IRIS using Embedded Python, analyzing data where it lives and never exporting it to an external process.
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
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.
I have a daily service that consumes x number of files, each file name chronologically suffixed sequentially by _1, _2, etc. I only want to process the latest file.
How do I build a business rule so it will only process the last file?
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.
What was your READY experience like? 🎉 We’ve put together a bingo card — check out how many squares match your experience!
Mark the moments that happened to you or share them in the comments below. And if you had a memorable READY moment that’s not on the card, tell us about it — we’d love to hear your story ✨
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