In healthcare, interoperability is the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and use the information that has been exchanged.
Hello InterSystems Community,
I'm working with HealthShare, and need to create a user account for our development environment with specific access requirements.
My IRIS Haiku:
Store all things with care
Interop'rability
IRIS unites usHello again,
We are still seeking feedback on our two new HealthShare Unified Care Record certification exam designs. This is your opportunity to tell us what knowledge, skills, and abilities are important for Certified HealthShare Unified Care Record Specialists.
The feedback surveys are open until July 20th, 2025. All participants are eligible to receive 7000 Global Masters points for each survey they complete!
Interested in sharing your opinions? See the original post for more details on how to weigh-in on the exam topics.
I am seeking work with InterSystems HealthConnect/Cache. My experience is working with Rules and DTLs, plus message search, and export of components.With 10 years of dedicated expertise in SOA and ESB platform development, I have successfully designed and implemented enterprise-level integration solutions for large organizations, driving significant improvements in system interoperability and business efficiency.I have actively developed and supported HL7 V2/V3 、FHIR、XML/JSON interfaces.I reside in China. Available for full-time or contract positions, with remote work options preferred.
Hi community,
A few weeks ago I published an API accelerator call Memoria, Is a very simple way to minimize the time and network traffic to and end-point, I hope could be useful.
The link in openexchange: https://openexchange.intersystems.com/package/memoria
Regards!
Hello, good morning, thank you so much for reading this question. ☺️🙂👍
We are developing a code to get information about our Production's items: services, processes and operations.
We know we can get various configurations of a given item: Category, Port, Enabled...
But we wonder how we could get the date time of the last mesage (most recent) received in an item.
To give a code snippet a small section of the code we have developed (and tested), it looks like:
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For i=1:1:tProduction.Items.Count() {
#dim item as Ens.Config.Item
set item = tProduction.
This is a template for a Flask application that can be deployed in IRIS as an native Web Application.
git clone
cd iris-flask-template
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
docker-compose up
The base URL is http://localhost:53795/flask/.
/iris - Returns a JSON object with the top 10 classes present in the IRISAPP namespace./interop - A ping endpoint to test the interoperability framework of IRIS.Is anyone using DICOM Interoperability in IRIS for Health configured in Mirror?
I'm asking because I'm not sure how to handle where the DICOM messages are stored.
For some reason DICOM use the filesystem to store raw messages, the directory used can be configured in the StorageLocation production settings, obviously this is a big issue if/when a mirror failover occur.
Unfortunately in IRIS it's not possible to change the DICOM storage from file stream to global stream.
Has anyone came across this issue?
Hello Everyone,
The Certification team of InterSystems Learning Services is developing two new HealthShare Unified Care Record certification exams, and we are reaching out to our community for feedback that will help us evaluate and establish the contents of the exams. Please note that these exams will replace our HealthShare Unified Care Record Technical Specialist exam that we plan to retire in January 2026. Certifications earned in this technology before the exam’s retirement will remain valid for five years from the date of achievement.
How do I provide my input?
IRIS and Ensemble are designed to act as an ESB/EAI. This mean they are build to process lots of small messages.
But some times, in real life we have to use them as ETL. The down side is not that they can't do so, but it can take a long time to process millions of row at once.
To improve performance, I have created a new SQLOutboundAdaptor who only works with JDBC.
Extend EnsLib.SQL.OutboundAdapter to add batch batch and fetch support on JDBC connection.
Benchmarks released on Postgres 11.2 with 1 000 000 rows fetched and 100 000 rows inserted on 2 columns.
You know that feeling when you get your blood test results and it all looks like Greek? That's the problem FHIRInsight is here to solve. It started with the idea that medical data shouldn't be scary or confusing – it should be something we can all use. Blood tests are incredibly common for checking our health, but let's be honest, understanding them is tough for most folks, and sometimes even for medical staff who don't specialize in lab work. FHIRInsight wants to make that whole process easier and the information more actionable.
Hi Developers!
We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest 2025!
See the results below.
IRIS supports CCDA and FHIR transformations out-of-the-box, yet the ability to access and view those features requires considerable setup time and product knowledge. The IRIS Interop DevTools application was designed to bridge that gap, allowing implementers to immediately jump in and view the built-in transformation capabilities of the product.
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Hi Community,
In this article, I will introduce my application iris-fhir-bridge
IRIS-FHIR-Bridge is a robust interoperability engine built on InterSystems IRIS for Health, designed to transform healthcare data across multiple formats into FHIR and vice versa. It leverages the InterSystems FHIR Object Model (HS.FHIRModel.R4.*) to enable smooth data standardization and exchange across modern and legacy healthcare systems.
Profiling CCD Documents with LEAD North’s CCD Data Profiler
Ever opened a CCD and been greeted by a wall of tangled XML? You’re not alone. Despite being a core format for clinical data exchange, CCD's are notoriously dense, verbose, and unfriendly to the human eye. For developers and analysts trying to validate their structure or extract meaningful insights, navigating these documents can feel more like archaeology than engineering.
Let me introduce you to FHIRCraft, a lightweight tool to generate synthetic FHIR resources.
Now, you might be thinking:
“But wait — doesn’t Synthea already do that, and with tons of resources?”
Exactly — and that’s precisely why I created this app.
FHIRCraft is designed to generate simpler, smaller, and more focused FHIR resources. Unlike Synthea, it doesn’t aim to simulate entire patient histories or clinical workflows. Instead, it helps when you’re just getting started with FHIR — when you want to test things incrementally, or explore how specific resources behave in isolation.
Hi Developers,
We are happy to announce the new InterSystems online programming contest dedicated to all things health-related:
🏆 InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest 🏆
Duration: May 12 - June 1, 2025
Prize pool: $12,000
After we rolled out a new cointainer based on containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/irishealth:2023.1 this week, we suddenly noticed that our FHIR Repository started responding with an Error 500. This turns out to be caused by PROTECT violations on the new HSSYSLOCALTEMP namespace and database used by this version of the IRIS for Health FHIR components.
The trick to solve that is to add the "%DB_HSSYSLOCALTEMP" to the Web Application(s) that handle FHIR Requests. You can script that by running the following Class method in the namespace(s) that define these Web Applications:
do ##class(HS.We’re issuing a point release for InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and Health Connect 2025.1 — version 2025.1.0.225.1 — to address a critical interoperability issue affecting users who leverage System Default Setting enabled business hosts.
What’s the issue?
In certain configurations where a Business Host is marked as System Default Setting enabled, applying new settings via the UI may incorrectly indicate that changes were applied, even though the necessary restart did not occur.
I'm creating a Business Process that:
The Business Process is created with BPL, and objects are stored in BP context. When I execute this Process, in the 3rd point the object obtained in first transformation doesn't exist. It's empty.
In the previous article we have reviewed how to install our EMPI in standalone, so we are ready to start the basic configuration of our EMPI.
First of all we have to do an initial basic configuration, we can access to the configuration from the Configuration menu of our Registry.
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Selecting that option will allow to us to edit the basic configuration table of the Registry:
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In this menu we have to add the following parameters and update the value of one of them:
| KEY | VALUE | DESCRIPTION |
| \HSPI\LinkageDefinition | Local.Linkage. |
Business Process is adding control characters.
Input HL7 shows no control characters in Notepad ++
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Output
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Code:
{
#dim tStatus As %Status = $$$OK
#dim eException As %Exception.AbstractException
#dim tOBXText As %String
#dim tItemNumberCount As %Integer = 0
#dim tItemNumberProcessed As %Integer = 0
#dim tTotalCostSegment As %Integer = 0
#dim tOrderType As %String
#dim i As %Interger = 0
#dim tOBXKey As %Integer = 0
#dim tOBXTextChanged As %String
////
Set pOutput = pRequest.
Hi Developers!
Hi,
I've been working on a very basic Interoperability production in my computer. I followed one of the examples in the courses and created a TEST.FileRouterRoutingRule, but when trying to edit this rule, it takes me to the Rule Editor Login Page, where I can't get in (Not even with the _SYSTEM credentials) - Is this functionality unavailable in the community edition?
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The amazing Iris-nator has arrived in town.
He knows what you think, with just a few questions he is able to guess the character you have thought of.
Do you dare?
One of the challenges of creating a DICOM message is how to implement putting data in the correct place. Part of it is by inserting the data in the specific DICOM tags, while the other is to insert binary data such as a picture - In this article I will explain both.
To create a DICOM message, you can either use the EnsLib.DICOM.File class (to create a DICOM file) or the EnsLib.DICOM.Document class (to create a message that can be sent to PACS directly). In either case, the SetValueAt method will allow you to add your data to the DICOM tags.
Hey Developers,
Get an introduction to Apache Kafka, a popular event-streaming platform, and see a demonstration of the upcoming Kafka integration with InterSystems IRIS Interoperability:
⏯ Kafka! Integrating the World's Favorite Stream Processor with InterSystems IRIS
Has anybody tried to extend the Menu on Management Portal? I like to add a new page or a dashboard that will be created soon to the Management Portal and allow others to use it also. I understand there are risks that I could lose things during an upgrade. I am okay with that. Does InterSystems support such an effort?
The InterSystems IRIS is a great data platform and it is met the current features required by the market. In this article, you see the top 10:
Note: this list was updated because many features are added to IRIS in last 3 years (thanks @Kristina.
Hi all,
I can't find the list of business host setting sections and (crucially) how to refer to them in the SETTINGS parameter, as marked in purple here:
Parameter SETTINGS = "MySetting:Basic";
Does anyone know where this list lives?
Otto