Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced "fire") is a draft standard describing data formats and elements (known as "resources") and an application programming interface (API) for exchanging electronic health records
In Episode 8 of Data Points, senior clinical advisor for interoperability at InterSystems @Russ Leftwich joined the podcast to talk about healthcare interoperability standards. In the first part of our two-part interview, Russ tells us about the history of healthcare standards and electronic record-keeping, some of the biggest challenges in the field, and how software has evolved to meet those ever-growing challenges.
HealthShare 2020.1 is now Generally Available!
The 2020.1 release has many exciting features including:
- Support for HL7® FHIR® Release 4, including mapping of InterSystems SDA to FHIR R4
- North American customers can access to the CommonWell® health data network, including integration with the HealthShare Unified Care Record and Clinical Viewer
- New Clinical Viewer enhancements, including configurations to display icons and specific filtered views for COVID-19 testing status
- Clinical Viewer audits showing when a user accessed a patient’s information
- Separate kits for Unified Care Record and
Hi Community,
We're pleased to invite you to join the upcoming InterSystems IRIS 2020.1 Tech Talk: API-First Development on May 5 at 10:00 AM EDT!
In this week's InterSystems IRIS 2020.1 Tech Talk, we'll discuss API-first development and how InterSystems is embracing this industry trend with our API Manager, and specifically with our FHIR offerings. First, we'll talk about InterSystems API Manager. This tool controls your web-based API traffic in a single location. You can throttle throughput, configure payload sizes and whitelist/blacklist IPs, among many other features.
FHIR stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. Release 4 brings this HL7 standard to maturity, and the FHIR R4 support in InterSystems IRIS for HealthTM is big. You'll learn how to work with FHIR data in InterSystems IRIS, and see our developer portal in action, where you can access FHIR resources using the OpenAPI specification.
FHIR-HL7v2-SQL-Demo
Ready to use demo of an FHIR Server with IRIS for Health 2020.2 :
- HL7v2 transformation to the FHIR Server
- FHIR Server who can be query in SQL

Installing
Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/grongierisc/FHIR-HL7v2-SQL-Demo.git
Docker
docker-compose up --build -d
Usage
Can use postman config in misc/fhirhl7v2demo.postman_collection.json
Use UX at http://localhost:4201
Login/Password : SuperUser/password
How-To use the demo

3 steps to use it :
Import HL7v2 Messages
Click on the left arrow between IRIS and the ambulance.
This windows open :

From here you can import
Hi Community!
Please welcome the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube, recorded by @Patrick Jamieson:
⏯ InterSystems API Management and FHIR
Hi Community,
Please welcome the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:
⏯ Build HL7 Interfaces in a Flash
Hi Community,
The new video is available on InterSystems Developers YouTube Channel:
⏯ Collecting Healthcare Data with Alexa
Hi everyone,
I am very pleased to announce that the Readmission Demo has been released as open source. Many thanks to the Solution Factory team that worked hard on making this possible.
Here are the changes:
- It is now running on top of IRIS Community 2019.3.0.308.0.
- It has synthetic data based on Synthea instead of the real data we were using before. But the machine learning models are 100% real
- Image RRLACESrv has been renamed to “image-riskengine”
- Image “readmissionsrv” has been renamed to “image-risksrv"
- We refactored a lot of the code on image-riskengine to look better.
Hi Everyone,
Please welcome the new Global Summit 2019 video on InterSystems Developers YouTube Channel:
⏯ Using IoT in InterSystems IRIS for Health
Hi,
What is the best practice when adding FHIR extension to Patient resource? To not to lose it when updating Patient base class etc.
Krystian
Hi Community,
Please join the upcoming InterSystems Israel Meetup in Herzelia which will be held on November 21st, 2019!
It will take place in the Spaces Herzliya Oxygen Ltd from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The event will be focused on the InterSystems IRIS: it will be divided into IRIS for Healthcare and IRIS Data Platform. A joint lunch will be also included.

Please check the draft of the agenda below:
I am sending a PUT FHIR message for a CodeSystem Resource using the defailt Service and server that was installed when I installed the FHIR on the NameSpace.
When I try to use the FHIR Request "id" property it is empty; e.g. pFHIRRequest.id is EMPTY. I really need to get this value, how can I get it?
I added a trace ion both the HS.FHIR.Service and HS.FHIR.Server.Process, details to follow:
The trace in HS.FHIR.Service is as follows, this is inside the OnProcessInput where the Id is validated I added the "else", it prints the line in the "else" and the result is an EMPTY input.id (nothing):
//
I am de-serialzing a FHIR Resource CodeSystem in STU3 FHIR resources from JSON in my Business Process using the following code:
set pCodeSystemResource = ##class(HS.FHIR.vSTU3.Model.Resource.CodeSystem).%New()
set tStream = ##class(HS.SDA3.QuickStream).%OpenId(pFHIRRequest.QuickStreamId)
if $IsObject(tStream) {
set tSC = ##class(HS.FHIR.Utils).FHIRToHSFHIR(pFHIRRequest.ContentType, tStream, .pCodeSystemResource, "HS.FHIR.vSTU3.Model.Resource")
}
At this point it was validated that the ResourceType in the pFHIRRequest is "CodeSystem"
The error I am getting is in the FHIRToHSFHIR
Hi,
I am new to FHIR resources here i need to store patient current location with patient resource but location resource does not linked with patient. I need help this. In FHIR R4 resources having separate i implemented successfully in my project but i am suffered how to link location and patient. I fount resources from https://www.hl7.org/fhir/resourcelist.html
My Code implemented by nodejs with typescript language here i added graphql instead of rest
Looking at the DTL, we can pretty much understand what the provided mapping from FHIR to SDA3.
But, is there any Intersystems document, where the mapping To/From FHIR is documented, at least FHIR to SDA3 ?
Hi,
I am new to fhir framework, I have searched articles to write graphql API using FHIR i did not get any proper tutorial for this. I need to find better tutorial or articles for this. I have written API using graphql, typescript with mongodb. Can some one tell why we need resourcetype, identifier in fhir.
Also i have tried github code based on fhir using javascript. The source code i got from "https://github.com/Asymmetrik/graphql-fhir" here i tried to save patient informations
mutation{
PatientCreate(id: "PatientMani", resource: {
resourceType: Patient
name: [{
given
Session : Working with the FHIR Resource Repository
We tried below steps to create and load sample data from Synthea (FHIR data).
- Open terminal
- USER>zn "HSLIB"
- HSLib> do ##class(HS.HC.Util.Installer.FHIR).Install()
- Namespace : FHIRServer
- Install DSTU2? (Y/N) N
- Install STU3? (Y/N) Y
- STU3 CSP app [/csp/healthshare/fhirserver/fhir/stu3]:
- STU3 CSP Open ID Connect (OAuth 2.0) app [/csp/healthshare/fhirserver/fhir-oidc/stu3]:
- Install STU3 resource repository? (Y/N) Y
- Install STU3 PIXm? (Y/N) N
- Install STU3 PDQm? (Y/N) N
- Install STU3 MHD? (Y/N) N
- Continue with Installation? (Y/N) Y
- HSLI
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Hi Community:
Interested in getting hands-on with our technology? Come to Global Summit, where you'll find five experiences to choose from in the Experience Lab:
- The Machine Learning Toolkit on OpenExchange
- The Next Evolution of APIs
- Working with the FHIR Resource Repository
- Using AI Services to Build Intelligent Apps
- Containerizing Apps with InterSystems IRIS
If you've never tried these out, Experiences are guided exercises in which you engage with our technology.Each Experience starts with a brief introduction outlining a particular task.Then you complete the task on your own laptop.
Hi Community!
We are super excited to announce the Boston FHIR @ InterSystems Meetup on 10th of September at the InterSystems meeting space!
There will be two talks with Q&A and networking.
Doors open at 5:30pm, we should start the first talk around 6pm. We will have a short break between talks for announcements, including job opportunities.
Please check the details below.
Hi Community!
New video is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube Channel:
I use rest service on Health Connect and will has utilized HL7 FHIR for get information of external database. But i don't find exemplo in oficial documentation.
Someone to utilize the HL7 FHIR for info request in to external database?
Hi,
Most of my development experience is with HL7v2 interfaces and I don't have a background in web development and I'm very weak with javascript.
I'm looking for suggestions of learning resources to learn FHIR and 'SMART on FHIR' (JavaScript, OpenID connect, OAuth2) for developers like myself who mostly do HL7v2 integrations - but see FHIR as the future - and want to develop their skills!
I've found these
- http://docs.smarthealthit.org/
- http://docs.smarthealthit.org/tutorials/javascript/
- https://github.com/smart-on-fhir/sample-apps-stu3/tree/master/medications-standalone
Please respond
We are pleased to announce the availability of HealthShare 2019.1.
With this release, HealthShare delivers:
- Clinical Solutions, including substantial enhancements to the mobile-enabled Clinical Viewer, Clinigraphics enhancements, and the first of a new line of out-of-the-box answers to important operational and clinical questions, starting with the Health Insight's Emergency Department Frequent User Dashboard
- Enhanced Workflow with new site navigation for clinical and business users, Single Sign-On operation with EHRs, and enhanced patient data collection forms
- A Superior Foundation that
Hi -
I was wondering how if the "old FHIR gateway" works with the latest release of HealthShare Information Exchange. Since there is an impact on the amount of storage needed to use the "FHIR Gateway 2 which uses the Operation Data Store (ODS)", my question is how (if at all) can FHIR access to Information Exchange work without ODS?
Thanks
Hi Community!
Please welcome a new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube Channel:
Developing with FHIR - REST APIs
Hi Everyone!
New session recording from Global Summit 2018 is available on InterSystems Developers YouTube Channel:
Creating an Event Management Service
Breaking news!
InterSystems just announced the availability of the InterSystems IRIS for Health™ Data Platform across the Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure marketplaces.

With access to InterSystems unified data platform on all three major cloud providers, developers and customers have flexibility to rapidly build and scale the digital applications driving the future of care on the platform of their choice.
To learn more please follow this link.
Hello;
I have created an App launch to my FHIR app in the sandbox and am able to access Patients that are provided in the Sandbox. Having done this, I would now like to upload a test patient in a FHIR bundle to the sandbox, however I have not been able to find out how I can do this.
Can you provide some direction/tools that I can use to upload my bundle to the sandbox?
Thanks
-Rand
Is there any good documentation/tutorials on creating gateways in both directions between FHIR and Hl7v2 (for Health Connect)?
the scenarios I'm most interested in
1. Client application sends a FHIR demographic query to Health Connect - and the interface has to convert this to Hl7v2 QBP^Q11 message to the PAS.
2. Health connect sends a PDF document (from a file or HL7v2 interface) to an EPR over FHIR.
Thanks
Stephen
UPDATE
We are using Health Connect 15.03 - Cache for Windows (x86-64) 2017.2.1 (Build 801U) Wed Dec 6 2017 09:07:51 EST [HealthShare Modules:Core:15.03.9901 + Linkage Engine:15.03.9901]
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