Technology Bonuses for the InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest 2025

Hi Developers!

Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest 2025 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• InterSystems FHIR usage - 3
• Digital Health Interoperability - 4
• Vector Search - 3
• LLM AI or LangChain usage: Chat GPT, Gemini and others - 3
• Embedded Python - 2
• Docker container usage - 2 
• IPM Package deployment - 2
• Online Demo - 2
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• Find a bug in InterSystems FHIR server - 2
• Find a bug in InterSystems Interoperability - 2
• New First Article on Developer Community - 2
• New Second Article on Developer Community - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3
• Video on YouTube - 3

See the details below.

InterSystems FHIR usage - 3 points

Implement InterSystems FHIR server in your application either as a standalone cloud FHIR server or as a component of InterSystems IRIS for Health and collect 3 bonus points!

Digital Health Interoperability - 4 points

Collect 4 bonus points if your application is a healthcare interoperability solution that uses InterSystems Interoperability to transfer or/and transform healthcare data via messages or it uses healthcare format data transformation. Here are a couple of examples: one, two, three.

Vector Search - 3 points

Starting from the 2024.1 release, InterSystems IRIS contains a new technology vector search that allows building vectors over InterSystems IRIS data and performing a search of already indexed vectors. Use it in your solution and collect 3 bonus points. Here is the demo project that leverages it.

LLM AI or LangChain usage: Chat GPT, Bard, and others - 2 points

Collect 3 bonus expert points for building a solution that uses LangChain libs or Large Language Models (LLM) such as ChatGPT, Bard and other AI engines like PaLM, LLaMA, and more. AutoGPT usage count,s too.

A few examples already could be found in Open Exchange: iris-openai, chatGPT telegram bot, rag-demo.

Here is an article with langchain usage example.

Embedded Python - 2 points

Use Embedded Python in your application and collect 2 extra points. Base template, example application with Interoperability.

Docker container usage - 2 points

The application gets a 'Docker container' bonus if it uses InterSystems IRIS  running in a docker container. Here is the simplest template to start from.

ZPM Package deployment - 2 points

You can collect the bonus if you build and publish the ZPM(InterSystems Package Manager) package for your Full-Stack application so it could be deployed with:

zpm "install your-multi-model-solution"

command on IRIS with ZPM client installed. 

ZPM client. Documentation.

Online Demo of your project - 2 points
Collect 2 more bonus points if you provision your project to the cloud as an online demo at any public hosting.  

Implement Community Opportunity Idea - 4 points

Implement any idea from the InterSystems Community Ideas portal which has the "Community Opportunity" status. This will give you 4 additional bonus points.

Find a bug in InterSystems Digital Health Interoperability  - 2 points
We want the broader adoption of InterSystems Interoperability engine so we encourage you to report the bugs you will face during the development of your interoperability application with IRIS in order to fix it. Please submit the bug here in a form of issue and how to reproduce it. You can collect 2 bonus points for the first reproducible bug.

Find a bug in InterSystems FHIR Server - 2 points
We want the broader adoption of InterSystems FHIR, so we encourage you to report the bugs you will face during the development of your FHIR application in order to fix them. Please submit the bug here in a form of an issue and how to reproduce it. You can collect 2 bonus points for the first reproducible bug.

New First Article on Developer Community - 2 points

Write a brand new article on Developer Community that describes the features of your project and how to work with it. Collect 2 points for the article.

New Second Article on Developer Community - 1 point

You can collect one more bonus point for the second new article or the translation regarding the application. The 3rd and more will not bring more points but the attention will all be yours.

First-Time Contribution - 3 points

Collect 3 bonus points if you participate in InterSystems Open Exchange contests for the first time!

Video on YouTube - 3 points

Make new YouTube videos that demonstrate your product in action and collect 3 bonus points for each.

The list of bonuses is subject to change. Stay tuned!

Good luck in the competition!