Hey Community!

We're happy to share a new video from our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

Develop the Next Generation of Health IT with InterSystems@ Ready 2025

https://www.youtube.com/embed/K47GEnabO-k
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Hi,

I want to consume an API that provides HL7 messages. To achieve this, I have thought of the following workflow:

I have created a business service that periodically triggers a business process. The trigger request is forwarded to a business operation. There, a %Net.HttpRequest is assembled from scratch and then sent to the API endpoint. The corresponding HttpResponse then contains several HL7 messages encoded in UTF-8 in the message body. To further process the HL7 messages, the operation sends the HttpResponse back to the business process as EnsLib.HTTP.GenericMessage.

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The 2025.1.3 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for HealthTM, and HealthShare® Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA). These releases include the fixes for a number of recently issued alerts and advisories, including the following:

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Hello and welcome to the January 2026 Developer Community YouTube Recap.
InterSystems Ready 2025
By Elijah Cotterrell
By Daniel Franco
By Antonin Hlavinka
By Elijah Cotterrell, Kevin Kindschuh, Matías Fernández, Bernardo Linarez, Satchi Mouniswamy, Nikesh Kotecha
By Keren Skubach
By James MacKeith, Mark Bolinsky
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I have always struggled with Iterating through a JSON response to pull out certain fields into a Data Class Structure to use to populate fields in a DTL. So I defined the whole structure for the following JSON, with the base structure extending Ens.Response, %XML.Adaptor, and %JSON.Adaptor.

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Hey Community!

We're happy to share a new video from our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

Vector Search Performance @ Ready 2025

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZcrsyBvKFsw
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Hi Community,

We’re excited to invite you to take part in shaping the next generation of ObjectScript development tools. We’re working on an AI-powered ObjectScript coding assistant designed specifically for IRIS developers. Not a generic AI adapted for ObjectScript, but a solution built from the ground up to understand ObjectScript idioms, IRIS APIs, interoperability productions, and real-world developer workflows.

To make sure we build something truly useful, we need your input.

👉 ObjectScript Coder Agent Developer Survey 👈

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The third developer previews of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health, and HealthShare® Health Connect 2026.1 have been posted to the WRC developer preview site. Containers can be found on our

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TL;DR This article explains how to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on Azure using the Azure Marketplace and a Virtual Machine. It covers prerequisites, instance selection, authentication, SSH access, first verification steps, and how to delete resources to avoid charges. The deployment can typically be done using Azure free credits and is suitable for developers who want to quickly start working with IRIS in the cloud.

Who this guide is for. This guide is intended for developers, solution architects, and DevOps engineers who want to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on Microsoft Azure. No prior Azure automation experience is required, but basic familiarity with the Azure Portal and SSH is helpful.

After following this guide, you will be able to:

  • Launch InterSystems IRIS Community Edition from the Azure Marketplace
  • Configure a small, secure Azure VM
  • Connect to IRIS using SSH and the Management Portal
  • Reset the default IRIS password and verify that IRIS is running

Prerequisites

  • An active Azure subscription (new accounts may have free credits)
  • Permissions to create resource groups, VMs, and networking resources
  • An SSH client and a private key (.pem) you can store securely
  • Basic knowledge of Linux command line

Deployment overview

  • Open the IRIS Community Edition listing in Azure Marketplace and click Get it now
  • In Azure Portal, choose Start with a pre-set configuration (or Create)
  • Configure Basics: subscription, resource group, VM name, region, image, and size (a small VM is usually sufficient)
  • Choose SSH key authentication and generate/download the key if needed
  • Review + Create, accept terms, and deploy; then Go to resource → Connect → SSH
  • First SSH login: run iris password to change _SYSTEM/SYS; start a session with iris session iris
  • Management Portal: http://YOUR_VM_IP:52773/csp/sys/UtilHome.csp

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Hi Community! 👋

As 2026 gets underway, we’d love to hear what you’re focusing on this year.

This discussion is a space to share your resolutions, goals, and focus areas for 2026 - technical, professional or community-related.

These don’t have to be traditional New Year’s resolutions. Think of them as intentions or priorities you’d like to work on this year.

💬 What you can share

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Article
· Feb 4 11m read
IKO Plus: HSSYS Mirroring with IKO

Enabling HSSYS Mirroring Out of the Gate with IKO

For those of us building InterSystems workloads on Kubernetes, we are definitely spoiled with the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO) doing the heavy lifting and mirroring on day one. Where us spoiled brats jump up and down is when we try to add additional databases/namespaces when we provision from HealthConnect containers on day two, while others get to utilize HealthShare Mirroring for this task, the prerequisite of mirroring HSSYS out of the gate has been somewhat elusive. Here is example on how you can this powerful feature up and running with the employment of IKO and IrisClusters.

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Hello everyone,

My team lead mentioned that users can sometimes create globals directly without associating them with tables or classes. In this case, these globals would not be accessible via SQL.

Is this correct? Can a global exist independently in this way, and if so, is there a specific approach to access or manage them without SQL?

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10:47 AM — Jose Garcia's creatinine test results arrive at the hospital FHIR server.
2.1 mg/dL — a 35% increase from last month.

What happens next?

  • Most systems: ❌ The result sits in a queue until a clinician reviews it manually — hours or days later.
  • This system: 👍 An AI agent evaluates the trend, consults clinical guidelines, and generates evidence-based recommendations — in seconds, automatically.

No chatbot. No manual prompts. No black-box reasoning.

This is event-driven clinical decision support with full explainability:

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Triggered automatically by FHIR events
Multi-agent reasoning (context, guidelines, recommendations)
Complete audit trail in SQL (every decision, every evidence source)
FHIR-native outputs (DiagnosticReport published to server)

Built with:
- InterSystems IRIS for Health — Orchestration, FHIR, persistence, vector search
- CrewAI — Multi-agent framework for structured reasoning

You'll learn: 🖋️ How to orchestrate agentic AI workflows within production-grade interoperability systems — and why explainability matters more than accuracy alone.

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Hey Community!

We're happy to share a new video from our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

Taking the Fear out of FHIR - Fast Tracking Organizational FHIR Readiness @ Ready 2025

https://www.youtube.com/embed/TLWXlDCpU84
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In Part 1, we laid the technical foundation of MAIS (Multi-Agent Interoperability Systems). We have successfully wired up the 'Brain', built a robust Adapter using LiteLLM, locked down our API keys with IRIS Credentials, and finally cracked the trick code on the Python interoperability puzzle.

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France & Benelux READY 2026 has just come to an end, and once again, these two days demonstrated how dynamic, curious, and engaged the Developer Community truly is. Here is a look back in words and images at this great edition.

The event kicked off with welcome remarks from @Adeline Icard and @Geoffroy Vitoux, setting the tone for the days ahead: innovation, sharing, and collaboration.

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As applications grow, every database eventually hits scaling limits. Whether it's storage capacity, concurrent users, query throughput, or I/O bandwidth, single-server architectures have inherent constraints. This guide explains fundamental approaches to database scalability and shows how InterSystems IRIS implements these patterns to support enterprise-scale workloads.

We'll explore two complementary scaling strategies: horizontal scaling for user volume (distributing computational load) and sharding for data volume (partitioning datasets). Understanding the general principles behind these approaches will help you make informed decisions about when and how to scale your IRIS applications.

The examples in this guide use InterSystems IRIS in Docker containers.

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Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems Full Stack Contest 2026, which will give you extra points in the voting:

  • IRIS Vector Search usage -3
  • InterSystems Native SDK for Python or Embedded Python usage -3
  • Developer Community Idea implemented - 2
  • Docker container usage -2
  • IPM Package Deployment - 2
  • Online Demo -2
  • Find and report a bug - 2
  • Article on Developer Community - 2
  • The second article on Developer Community - 1
  • Video on YouTube - 3
  • YouTube Short - 1
  • First Time Contribution - 3

See the details below.<--break->

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I've modified the class file, but messages still arrive as a single line (e.g., "H|.../rQ|.../rL") instead of separate lines in the ASTM service. The <ENQ>..<EOT> header looks correct, logs show no errors, and the service receives messages fine. Is there an Ensemble 2018.1 engine setting (like line terminator handling or TCP framing) to fix the line splitting? ​

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Hey Community!

We're happy to share a new video from our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

Multi-threading an HL7 Interface and scaling beyond FIFO constraints @ Ready 2025

https://www.youtube.com/embed/8QpqZCZsiN4
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TL;DR This article explains how to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on AWS using the AWS Marketplace and EC2. It covers prerequisites, instance selection, security settings, SSH access, and first verification steps. The deployment can be completed using the AWS Free Tier and is suitable for developers who want to quickly start working with IRIS in the cloud.

Who this guide is for.

This guide is intended for developers, solution architects, and DevOps engineers who want to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on Amazon Web Services (AWS). No prior AWS automation experience is required, but basic familiarity with EC2 and SSH is helpful.

What you will achieve.

After completing this guide, you will be able to:

  1. Launch InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on AWS
  2. Configure a secure EC2 instance
  3. Connect to IRIS using SSH and the Management Portal
  4. Verify that IRIS is running correctly

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have:

  1. An active AWS account
  2. Permissions to create EC2 instances and security groups
  3. An SSH key pair configured in AWS
  4. Basic knowledge of Linux command line

Deployment overview

The deployment process consists of the following steps:

  1. Launch IRIS Community Edition from AWS Marketplace
  2. Select an EC2 instance type
  3. Configure networking and security
  4. Connect to the instance via SSH
  5. Verify IRIS installation

Hi Gang!

Did you know you can deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on the cloud without paying for a license? You can try for free, and it could even come in handy if you want to show off that shiny new app you've created (maybe for the full stack competition..?)

In this article I will provide a complete walkthrough on how to deploy IRIS on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and will also add a follow up for deploying on Azure.

Now before I begin the walkthrough, I want to admit that I was terrified of using AWS the first time because I'd seen memes about how easy it is to rack up costs on AWS. So if you're thinking the same, I suggest you start by signing up to a Free Tier Account, which gives you $100 free credit to evaluate, and automatically shuts off to prevent charges. InterSystems IRIS Community Edition has a free license so if you pair the two, you can deploy without risk and completely for free. (Disclaimer: although I'm sure this is true, please do read the free account terms and make your own decisions 😅 )

Note, this article walks through deploying IRIS Community on AWS, however the same guide can be followed to deploy IRIS for Health Community Edition, or with Bring-your-own-licence editions of IRIS and IRIS for Health, to deploy a fully licensed, production version of IRIS on AWS.

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