Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a practical project guide to help me gain hands-on experience with InterSystems Ensemble HL7. Ideally, this guide would walk through building a small project — something that covers key concepts like message routing, transformations, and interoperability.

If there's a resource that also includes step-by-step instructions and perhaps even offers a certification upon completion, that would be perfect.

Any recommendations or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! 😊

I'm proud to announce the new release of iris-pex-embedded-python (v2.3.1) with a new command line interface.

This command line is called iop for Interoperability On Python.

First I would like to present in few words the project the main changes since the version 1.

A breif history of the project

Version 1.0 was a proof of concept to show how the interoperability framework of IRIS can be used with a python first approach while remaining compatible with any existing ObjectScript code.

What does it mean? It means that any python developer can use the IRIS interoperability framework without any knowledge of ObjectScript.

Example :

from grongier.pex import BusinessOperation

class MyBusinessOperation(BusinessOperation):

    def on_message(self, request):
        self.log.info("Received request")

Great, isn't it?

In 2023, according to IDC, Salesforce's market share in CRM reached 21.7%. This company owns a substantial amount of critical corporate business processes and data, so the InterSystems IRIS must have an interoperability connector to fetch data from the Salesforce data catalog. This article will show you how to get any data hosted by Salesforce and create an interoperation production to get data and send it to such targets as files and relational databases.

Create your development account on Salesforce:

1. Go to https://developer.salesforce.com/signup:

2.

Hello everyone

For those interested, here is an implementation example I used in one of my projects to interoperate with MongoDB using the pymongo package.

iris-mongodb

Interoperates with MongoDB (via pymongo package) with InterSystems IRIS (including outbound adapter)

Remember to import pymongo package.

implementation example for testing here

NAMESPACE> do ##class(custom.python.pymongo.test).TestMongoDBCrud()

for interoperability, use the following adapter in your business operation:

Parameter ADAPTER = "custom.python.pymongo.outboundAdapter";

Parameter INVOCATION = "Queue";

Query example:

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FHIR repositories, applications and servers typically serve clinical data in small quantities, whether to return data about a patient, their medications, vaccines, allergies, among other information. However, it is common for a large amount of data in FHIR/JSON format to be requested to be used to load into Data Lakes, identifying study cohorts, population health, or transferring data from one EHR to another. To meet these business scenarios that require large extractions and loads of data, it is recommended to use the FHIR Bulk Data Access feature provided by HL7 institution.

The InterSystems

Hi all!Here I would like to share how we use vector search and GenAI with InterSystems technology.As an example, I'll describe BG-AppealAI project, which our company submitted to the InterSystems Vector Search, GenAI and ML Contest.BG-AppealAI application can write an appeal if you upload an insurance contract and the insurance company’s letter with a refusal to pay medical expenses.Of course, we are aware that at the moment AI has not reached such a level as to create ready-made legal documents.

Dear community, we are building up a digital backbone for our 17 hospitals and looking for reinforcement within the team. Maybe this is something for you or someone you know?

👩‍💻 Are you an (#InterSystems) developer and would you like to join an intelligent, bright and internationally diverse team (mainly in Zurich, but also in South Africa and the Middle East)?
🤘 Are you keen to use your skills for clinically relevant use cases and to build a Group-wide value-creating platform?
😁 Are you up for mischief and humor in the workplace? 
📣 Are you willing to share frustration with us when things

Learning LLM Magic

The world of Generative AI has been pretty inescapable for a while, commercial models running on paid Cloud instances are everywhere.  With your data stored securely on-prem in IRIS, it might seem daunting to start getting the benefit of experimentation with Large Language Models without having to navigate a minefield of Governance and rapidly evolving API documentation.   If only there was a way to bring an LLM to IRIS, preferably in a very small code footprint....

Some warnings before we start

1. This article targets any recent version of IRIS (2022+) which includes Embedded

Hello,

Very much keen if we could gather the per namespace and business component utilization of InterSystems cache server.

For e. I have a PRD server where its CPU utilization is at max all the time and I want to know which namespace and its business process (service/Operation/Process) is utilizing what number of CPU and memory.

** I can get the CPU and Memory utilization per Cache.exe and PID, but not able to get the Namespace and ConfiguratioName to which that particular PID belongs.

Thank you,

Hi,

A SFTP server on which we connect has increased its security level by disabling the use of the ssh-rsa algorithm
Since then, SFTP connections with ssh keys are no longer made through Intersytems but through tools such as FileZila and Putty.Looking at the Logs I see that the generated ssh key of type RSA supports other modern algorithms such as rsa-sha2-256 / rsa-sha2-512 ...I wanted to know if the Intersystems SFTP client supports modern algorithms?Or is there an ssh configuration that excludes rsa-sha2 algorithms that will need to be disabled?

It's been a while since I've posted about Embedded Git on the Developer Community, and I'd like to provide an update on the massive amount of work we've done this year and where we're going next.

Context

If you're building solutions on IRIS and want to use Git, that's great! Just use VSCode with a local git repo and push your changes out to the server - it's that easy.

But what if:

• You're collaborating with other developers on a shared, remote development environment and want to avoid stepping on each others' toes by editing the same file at the same time
• You're using editors based in the

In your Interoperability Production you could always have a Business Operation that is an HTTP client, that uses OAuth 2.0 for authentication, but you had to customize the Operation for this authentication methodology. Since v2024.3, which was lately released, there is a new capability, providing new settings, to handle this more easily.

The Lo-Code Challenge

Imagine the scene.  You are working happily at Widgets Direct, the internet's premier retailer of Widgets and Widget Accessories.   Your boss has some devastating news, some customers might not be fully happy with their widgets, and we need a helpdesk application to track these complaints.   To makes things interesting, he wants this with a very small code footprint and challenges you to deliver an application in less than 150 lines of code using InterSystems IRIS.  Is this even possible?

Disclaimer: this article documents the building of a very basic application and omits

Hi Community,

We're excited to invite you to the webinar 2025 Data Management: Technology Trends & Predictions.

Join this webinar for an engaging and insightful tech talk on the latest trends in data management technology in the UK and Ireland.

⏱ Date & Time: Thursday, January 23, 10:30 AM GMT

👨‍🏫 Speakers: 

• Andy Hayler, Practice Leader, Bloor Research
• @Mike Fuller, Regional Director of Marketing, InterSystems UK&I

When developing a new Interoperability Production, it is quite natural that settings are initially added in the Production.

However, as soon as you want to move the Production from development to a test or staging environment, it becomes clear that some settings like HTTP Servers, IP addresses and/or ports need to be changed. In order to avoid these settings being overwritten during a redeployment later on, it is essential that you move these settings from the Production to the System Default settings.

Creating System Default settings manually is possible, but will become hard when you have

Last Chapter: Creating a REST client to get Tracks from Spotify REST API - Part3 Get some data (e.g. Artists)

Git link: https://github.com/ecelg/InterSystems-IRIS-as-a-Spotify-REST-client

OK we create a method to get data and lets try to get some Tracks 😁

Now open a terminal and test the code

Run the following line

w ##class(rest.utli.requestUtli).getdata("Spotify","/search","offset=5&limit=10&query=Shape%20of%20you&type=track&market=SG")

ooooo no seems there is huge among of data returns.....😥

I would like to know what information can be found in 1 track....🤔 how about only query 1 track?

let's try

Last Chapter:  Creating a REST client to get Tracks from Spotify REST API - Part1 Check out token

Git link: https://github.com/ecelg/InterSystems-IRIS-as-a-Spotify-REST-client

Ok... Now we can check out a token but it will be expired in 3600 seconds.

There are 2 questions come up🤔

1. How to save this token????🙄

2. How to refresh this token????🤨🤔 

Lets come back to the API document https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/tutorials/getting-started

Base on my understanding, this piece of API do not have a token called refresh_token, as a result, we can assume the logic like following

OK

Implements Idea DPI-I-456

Idea

What The Sample Does

This sample was cloned from iris-interoperability-template. I have reconfigured the interoperability Production with an Inbound HTTP Adapter which is used by a HTTP Business Service. The configuration details for the business service are specified in System Default Settings. I configured Call Interval setting to call HTTPServer once every hour. You can change both the URL and frequency in the service's settings.

Originally the HTTP Service had two targets.

Hi Community,
In this article, I will introduce my application iris-HL7v2Gen .

IRIS-HL7v2Gen is a CSP application that facilitates the dynamic generation of HL7 test messages. This process is essential for testing, debugging, and integrating healthcare data systems. The application allows users to generate a wide variety of HL7 message types, validate their structure against HL7 specifications, explore the message hierarchy, and transmit messages over TCP/IP to production systems. These features are particularly useful in settings where compliance with HL7 standards is mandatory for interoperability between different healthcare organizations or systems.

Application Features

• Dynamic HL7 Message Generation: Instantly create HL7 messages for a range of message types, facilitating comprehensive testing.
• Message Structure Exploration: Visualize the structure of generated messages based on HL7 specifications.
• Value Set Visualization View predefined sets of allowable coded values for specific fields.
• Message Validation: Validate messages against HL7 standards to ensure compliance.
• TCP/IP Communication: Easily transmit messages to production using TCP/IP settings.
• Broad Message Type Support: Supports 184 different HL7 message types, ensuring versatility for various healthcare integration needs.
• ClassMethod: Generate a Test Message by Invoking a Class Method
• Version Support: Currently Supports HL7 Version 2.5

We are building a data transformation from HL7 to custom XML. We've got an XML schema, and are using virtual documents (EnsLib.EDI.XML.Document).

We can:

• build our transform as a single transform
• build our transform using subtransforms where the source data for the subtransform is all in a single HL7 segment and all the output data goes into a single (complex) element of the XML, so the input type on the subtransform is the segment from the HL7 schema and the output type on the subtransform is the relevant element picked out of the XML schema:
  
• but we can't (so far!) build a subtransform wh

Interoperability of systems ensures smooth workflow and management of data in today's connected digital world. InterSystems IRIS extends interoperability a notch higher with its Embedded Python feature, which lets developers seamlessly integrate Python scripts into the IRIS components, like services, operations, and custom functions.

Why Embedded Python in IRIS?
Embedded Python brings the flexibility of Python into the powerful world of InterSystems IRIS and provides the following: Access to Python Libraries: Leverage popular libraries such as pandas, NumPy, and requests for advanced data

The ability to resend messages easily has always been a strong feature of our Interoperability capabilities.

With v2024.3 coming out soon (available already now as Developer Preview) out already we've made this even easier!

Production Configuration

This demo has an interoperability production with 16 items. 

Production Configuration HL7 + Kafka Producer

The first part of this demonstration consists of sending an HL7 SIU file which will be transmitted to the 2 other HL7 flows (HTTP and TCP), and transformed and transmitted to the Kafka server. HTTP and TCP flows will transform HL7 messages in the same way before sending them to Kafka as well.

• 3 HL7 Business Services
• 1 HL7 router
• 2 HL7 Business Operations
• one Business Operation sending the transformed messages to Kafka

Business Rule

The production has a business

When building a bundle from legacy data, I (and others) wanted to be able to control whether or not the resources were generated with a FHIR Request Method of PUT instead of the hard coded POST.  I have extended the two classes responsible for transforming SDA to FHIR in an Interoperability Production to accomodate a setting that lets the user control the Request Method.

First is the Busines Process class. This includes a new parameter exposed to the "Settings" tab in Interoperability called FHIRRequestMethod.

Is there a way to create and establish DICOM Association with Extended Negotiation? 

I have implemented DICOM Query/Retrieve C-FIND, using EnsLib.DICOM.Operation.TCP and EnsLib.DICOM.Process base classes. My application, acting as an SCU, needs to query by Study Date-Time (combined date-time matching) range with timezone query adjustment. For this, I need to use Extended Negotiation.

I've checked the IRIS Manual - Creating DICOM Associations section but there is no mention of this.

Hello,
Please, we would need your help 🙂:

In a development environment, we have added quite a few presentation contexts to the DICOM configurations (the associations). We would need to find a way to export them from this environment to make it easier for us to import them in PRO (and avoid doing it by hand one by one).

We know that there is this method, the ImportAssociation(), that given a file, and the names of the local AET and the remote AET, creates it automatically:
    https://docs.intersystems.com/irisforhealthlatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.U…

Hi Community,   OpenAPI-Client Gen has just released, this is an application to create an IRIS Interoperability Production client from Swagger 2.0 specification.   Instead of the existing tool ^%REST that creates a server-side REST application, OpenAPI-Client Gen creates a complete REST Interoperability Production client template.

Install by ZPM:

zpm "install openapi-client-gen"

  How to generate production from Swagger document?   It's very simple.

Open a terminal and execute:

Set sc = ##class(dc.openapi.client.Spec).generateApp(<applicationName>, <Your Swagger 2.0 document>>)

  The first

Description

This is a template for a FastApi application that can be deployed in IRIS as an native Web Application.

Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. Create a virtual environment
3. Install the requirements
4. Run the docker-compose file

git clone
cd iris-fastapi-template
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
docker-compose up

Usage

The base URL is http://localhost:53795/fastapi/.

Endpoints

• /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.
• /posts - A

Production Decomposition

Production Decomposition is a new configuration option added to the CCR Client Tools that instead of source controlling the Production class as a single item, considers it a composition of configuration items. This allows different users to edit these distinct items within a Production at the same time. Historically, this has been a pain point with source controlling Productions as any work involving the Production class required a check out that prevented other users from making edits.