I know that people who are completely new to VS Code, Git, Docker, FHIR, and other tools can sometimes struggle with setting up the environment. So I decided to write an article that walks through the entire setup process step by step to make it easier to get started.

I’d really appreciate it if you could leave a comment at the end - let me know if the instructions were clear, if anything was missing, or if there’s anything else you'd find helpful.

The setup includes:

✅ VS Code – Code editor
✅ Git – Version control system
✅ Docker – Runs an instance of IRIS for Health Community
✅ VS Code REST Client Extension – For running FHIR API queries
✅ Python – For writing FHIR-based scripts
✅ Jupyter Notebooks – For AI and FHIR assignments

Before you begin: Ensure you have administrator privileges on your system.

In addition to reading the guide, you can also follow the steps in the videos:

For Windows

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

Check out this new video that shows how to build the UI for InterSystems FHIR server from scratch using AI with no previous frontend experience:

📺 Building and Deploying React Frontend for the InterSystems FHIR server in 20 minutes with Lovable AI

🗣 Presenter: @Evgeny Shvarov, Senior Manager of Developer and Startup Programs, InterSystems

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

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

Customizing the InterSystems FHIR Transformation Service @ Global Summit 2024

https://www.youtube.com/embed/OULbRZfRPBY
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I am trying to use IRIS for Health as a Facade for an external FHIR Server, where IRIS provides the proper authentication.
The client authenticates using a bearer token obtained from the IRIS OAuth2 server via a jwt client assertion.
The IRIS endpoint, however, returns a 401 as soon as I remove the Unauthenticated access

Is there w way to make this work through configuration?

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My IRIS instance is connected to a Postgres database using SQL Gateway and linked tables.
One of these tables is projected to the Patient class. I want to select a record from this table by ID and convert it to a FHIR resource using the %ExistsId and %OpenId methods.
I noticed that if I call these two methods from the console, the record is always found.

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As I begin our adventure into using an External FHIR Repository, I wanted to see what opinions people have about a design Idea I was working on.

I want to create a way that my Team has the ability to send a Message Type, and the system knows from that Message Type which FHIR queries to execute and return the Response back to the user, sort of like a FHIR Query Hub. Does this sound reasonable?

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I'm playing with some anayltic queries against FHIR server tables. The HSFHIR_X0002_S_Patient.addressCity table contains a lot of cities which names contain german charachers such as ä, ö and ü.

The following query works fine:

select value from HSFHIR_X0002_S_Patient.addressCity

But this one converts city names to uppercase, and characters with umlauts are lost, so instead of "Köln" or "München" I see KOLN and MUNCHEN:

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I have a scenario where I send a GET request to a broker and receive a FHIR response. When I attempted to use the built-in InterSystems functions to convert this FHIR response into SDA, the transformation failed—likely because it is not a standard FHIR request.

How should I handle this situation? Is there a recommended approach to processing FHIR responses in this context?

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Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

FHIR Object Model @ Global Summit 2024

https://www.youtube.com/embed/UvwLHz5OGjs
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Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

FHIR Repository and FHIR SQL Builder @ Global Summit 2024

https://www.youtube.com/embed/EEc5Zfo121c
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While working with GET request I encountered this situation where FHIR Server return a responseStatusHTTP "HTTP/1.1 200 200" instead of "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" (as highlighted in the attached screenshot).

Although the response code seems valid, these bundles have a total value of 0.

Could anyone clarify what "200 200" signifies in this context? Is there an issue with my setup, or does this indicate a specific condition related to the empty bundle search?

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Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

FHIR Lessons Learned From the Field @ Global Summit 2024

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ojNDhiWdfeI
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I am trying to work with Epic on FHIR. Epic's documentation stated, your application makes a HTTP POST request to the authorization server's OAuth 2.0 token endpoint to obtain access token.

Set tSC = ##class(%SYS.OAuth2.Authorization).GetAccessTokenClient(pClient,pScopes,.prop,.err) returns

ERROR #9761: No key in provided JWKS for alg ES512 and kid

I check this /csp/sys/oauth2/OAuth2.JWTServer.cls?client_name=medbank and I see this:

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Question
· Dec 4, 2024
Error importing XSD

I'm attempting to import all the FHIR XSD files provided by http://hl7.org/fhir but get the immediate and unhelpful error message:

I've tried different versions of EOLs to no avail. Any idea what this error could mean?

Here's the XSD I'm trying to import:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Copyright (c) 2011+, HL7, Inc
All rights reserved.

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Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

FHIR Performance Benchmarking @ Global Summit 2024

https://www.youtube.com/embed/SnWLY9KPgUU
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Hello Developers,

I have MacBook Pro M3 and I'm new to the IRIS for Health setup / installation with all pre-requisite / requirements so someone could please help me with detailed instructions on how to setup IRIS for Health (HL7 & FHIR) from scratch along with SQL Server? I have Windows 11 installed in parallel desktop if that's required and complete installation / setup is not possible on MacBook.

Thank you in advance.

Rushi

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Hey Community,

We're excited to invite you to the next InterSystems UKI Tech Talk webinar:

👉 Cloud Health: FHIR Server

Join this webinar to dive into the world of HealthShare Health Connect Cloud with our upcoming session on Cloud Health: FHIR Server.

Date & Time: Thursday, March 20, 2025 2:30 PM GMT

👨‍🏫 Speaker: @Regilo Regilio Guedes de Souza, Director of Cloud Delivery, InterSystems

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Hi, Community!

Are you working with clinical data in a research setting? See how InterSystems OMOP streamlines data integration and analysis.

Using InterSystems OMOP to Transform FHIR Data

https://www.youtube.com/embed/kXpTyKL_-nA?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=kXpTyKL_-nA
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Hi developers!

This will be a very short article as in April 2025 with Lovable and other Prompt-to-UI tools it becomes possible to build the frontend with prompting. Even to the folks like me who is not familiar with modern UI techics at all.

Well, I know at least the words javascript, typescript and ReactJS, so in this very short article we will be building the ReactJS UI to InterSystems FHIR server with Lovable.ai.

Let's go!

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Hey Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

Introduction to OMOP Platform

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5O9J-tRQZM8
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