#InterSystems IRIS for Health

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InterSystems IRIS for Health™ is the world’s first and only data platform engineered specifically for the rapid development of healthcare applications to manage the world’s most critical data. It includes powerful out-of-the-box features: transaction processing and analytics, an extensible healthcare data model, FHIR-based solution development, support for healthcare interoperability standards, and more. All enabling developers to realize value and build breakthrough applications, fast. Learn more.

Article Theo Stolker · May 23, 2025 2m read

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
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Question Edmara Francisco · Feb 14, 2025

Hello, community!

I am working on implementing OAuth 2.0 authentication in InterSystems IRIS and need to correctly define a CSRF token that will be validated by OAuth.Response. However, I am having trouble finding a clear method to configure the CSRF token correctly.

So far, I have tried:

  • Setting the CSRF token in the request header.
  • Inserting the CSRF token via InsertCookie.

Despite these attempts, I haven’t been successful. On the OAuth.Response page, the CSRF token is empty, and I get the error message “Invalid CSRF token” because the csrfToken is empty.

If csrfToken '= state {

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Question Mark OReilly · Oct 25, 2024

We have a scenario where we use the best practice article of a BP and DTL to split up HL7 messages mainly ORUS 

https://community.intersystems.com/post/splitting-oru-messages-using-ob…

It is really useful but we have this code in many places that we are trying to consolidate it in one place. 

We do not want to split it at the first stage in our rules as there is a lot of messages that go to sink. So we are trying for specific rules and the incoming hl7 matches certain rules and classified for certain downstream systems that it is then split and transformed. 

The problem is that

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Question Ashok Kumar T · May 22, 2025

Hello Community,

When I run the following code with x undefined in terminal, it throws a syntax error and returns control to the program stack. After issuing a GO command, execution continues, and setting the global variable ^zz1.

code 1:

test.mac
if$Data(@x@(a,b,c)) {
    set^zz1=1212
}
write !,1212,!
////orif$Data(@x@(a,b,c)) set^zz1=1212write !,1212,!

 if I assign the result of $D(@x@(a,b,c)) to a local variable like d using set d=$D(@x@(a,b,c)), and then use if d { ... }, the code fails(global is not set) working as expected.

Code 2

test1.mac
setd=$D(@x@(a,b,c))
 ifd {
     s
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Question John McBride · May 16, 2025

I'm trying to deploy a python/flask application to an Iris4Health container (2025.1) but running into some issues with packages and where they should be installed. 

First one if the flask packages themselves. I tried to installed the flask packages into the python external language server virtual environment, but even doing this when configuring the WSGI application in the web application section, it would complain about not having a WSGI framework. Once I created a custom container and added the flask package at the OS level, I was able to configure the web application without it complaining.
Q

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InterSystems Official Daniel Palevski · May 21, 2025

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.

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Question Laura Blázquez García · May 16, 2025

I'm creating a Business Process that:

  1. Transforms one object into another using DTL
  2. Sends this object to an operation
  3. Transform the object obtained in first point into another one using DTL
  4. Sends the second object to an operation

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.

I have tried to make transformation before making CALL's, I mean:

  1. Transforms one object into another using DTL
  2. Transform the object obtained in first point into
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Article Nicole Sun · Apr 17, 2025 6m read

Over the past couple of months, I have been working on the SMART on FHIR EHR Launch to test the capabilities of IRIS for Health using two open-source apps from CSIRO: SMART-EHR-Launcher and SMART Forms App. This journey has been incredibly interesting, and I’m truly grateful for the opportunity to work on this task and explore more of IRIS for Health’s potential.

After successfully demonstrating the seamless launch of multiple external SMART apps at the HL7 AU FHIR Connectathon, I’m excited to share what I’ve learned with the community.

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Question Geoffrey Lu · May 16, 2025

For background, I've developed code that relies on %JSON.Adaptor functionality across an entire package of classes in our codebase. In regenerating these classes with %JSON.Adaptor as a superclass, I've encountered compilation errors from the JSON adaptor generators in certain classes, triggered by certain property types or parameters that are incompatible.

There are two causes for these compilation errors: either 1) the property is computed, and therefore certain property methods in the code generated by the JSON adaptor, such as ..SetObjectId(), do not exist, or 2) the property is an array

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Question Ashok Kumar T · May 16, 2025

Hello Community,

Is it possible to retrieve/find all the names of subroutines, procedures, or functions from a deployed routine?. in the routine below, how can I extract names like x2 and execsql? I’ve just tried using openId on %RoutineMgr  but it didn’t help.

xdeploy.mac
xdeploy
 quit
x2 ; test1write123q
execsql(sql) ; test2Set tResult = ##Class(%SQL.Statement).%ExecDirect(,sql)
 Return tResult

Thanks

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Question Gary Lusso · Apr 10, 2025

Business Process is adding control characters.

Input HL7 shows no control characters in Notepad ++

Output

Code:

Method FromCerner(pRequest As EnsLib.HL7.Message) As %Status
{
    #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 As %Interger = 0
    #dim tOBXKey As %Integer = 0
    #dim tOBXTextChanged As %String
       ////
       Set pOutput = pRequest.%ConstructClone(1) //

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Announcement Larry Finlayson · May 15, 2025

Developing with InterSystems Objects and SQL – In PersonJune 9-13, 2025

  • This 5-day course teaches programmers how to use the tools and techniques within the InterSystems® development environment.
  • Students develop a database application using object-oriented design, building different types of IRIS classes.
    • They learn how to store and retrieve data using Objects or SQL, and decide which approach is best for different use cases.
    • They write code using ObjectScript, Python, and SQL, with most exercises offering the choice between ObjectScript and Python, and some exercises requiring a
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Question Scott Roth · May 13, 2025

We are attempting to send HL7 messages over to CBOARD NetMenu over HTTP using SSL. We set this up using the EnsLib.HL7.Operation.HTTPOperation adapter. When we attempt to send the message we are receiving 

MSH|^~\&|||DIETOE|A6M0|202505131437||ACK^HTTP^415|00|P|2.1 MSA|AE|9165602|HTTP (N)ACK 'HTTP/1.1 415 Unsupported Media Type'

The vendor mentioned something about putting a SOAP/XML wrapper around the HL7 message but isn't that what the HTTPOperation adapter does? Why would we be getting Unsupported Media Type. How would we go about setting the Media Type for the HTTP HL7 message?

This is the

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Question Ashok Kumar T · May 8, 2025

Hello Community,

I executed the below query in the %ZLANGC00.mac routine. It returns results when using dynamic SQL, but not with embedded SQL(returns 0). 

 &SQL(SELECTcount(*) INTO :Cnt FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_TYPE='BASE TABLE'")
 Write "SQLTablecount : "_Cnt,!
 Set tResultSet = ##class(%SQL.Statement).%ExecDirect(,"SELECTcount(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_TYPE='BASE TABLE'")
 Do tResultSet.%Display()

Thanks!

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Article Kunal Pandey · May 12, 2025 1m read

Introducing Smart Clinical Sidechick — the intelligent, no-drama partner your EHR wishes it could be.She reads FHIR data in real time, interprets lab results without ghosting, and explains clinical alerts like she actually cares.Built with GPT-4 brains and YAML sass, she’s not here to replace your main EHR—just to make it look bad.Tired of irrelevant alerts and cryptic warnings?Sidechick serves up real, explainable insights, not vague “elevated risk” vibes.And when your backend crashes, she doesn’t panic—she self-heals.

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Question Tony Alexander · Nov 22, 2021

Hi Community,

I recently needed to interrogate some folders/sub-folders to retrieve filenames using cache object script(COS) and I implemented it in the following way.

ClassMethod ListDir(path = "",wildchar = "*",recursive As %String(VALUELIST=",y,n") = "y",ByRef dirlist){i path'=""{i ##class(%File).DirectoryExists(path){s rs=##class(%ResultSet).%New("%File:FileSet")s sc=rs.Execute(path
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Question Scott Roth · May 9, 2025

I am running into an issue where a JSON response is missing keys...

{
    "count": 0,
    "pageInformation": {
        "offset": 0,
        "size": 10
    },
    "items": []
}

Within the JSON response I am only looking for two fields portalUrl and portalId. I have tried using $LENGTH and %IsDefined to check if they are valued but neither work. 

  If ((tHttpResponseIsObject) && ($ZCONVERT(tHttpResponseContentType,"L") [ "application/json"))
  {
    set responseData = {}.%FromJSON(tHTTPResponse.Data)
    set pResponse = ##class(osuwmc.COM.Response.StringResponse).%New()
    if%IsDefined
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Question Ashok Kumar T · May 7, 2025

Hello Community,

When retrieving strings from the DAO, if the string exceeds the capacity of an ObjectScript string variable, it returns <MAXSTRING>. To prevent this, use dao.%Get(key, default, "stream") to retrieve the value as a stream (%Stream.DynamicBinary). However, Why can't we use other stream objects such as %Stream.TmpCharacter instead of %Stream.DynamicBinary/%Stream.DynamicCharacter (I understand It is not possible to create a direct object instance for %Stream.Dynamic* classes) .Since both streams are not stored in the database, is there a specific reason for using one over the

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Question Ewan Whyte · May 8, 2025

I'm trying to use the assign option within a ruleset. I can trace the value with no issues but when I try to assign the same value to a variable of Namespace I get an error.
Ideally I would like to use a variable instead of repeating the Piece repeatedly throughout the rules.
Ruleset


And this is the error that I am getting.
ERROR <Ens>ErrException: <PROPERTY DOES NOT EXIST>zevaluateRuleDefinition+14^SFT.RoutingRules.AlertManCreationRule.1 *Namespace,Ens.Alerting.Context.CreateAlert -- logged as '-' number - @' set

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InterSystems Official Bob Kuszewski · Nov 9, 2023

When AMD published the x86-64 standard in 1999, little did they know they were inventing what would become the de-facto architecture for server CPUs.  But the CPUs of today aren’t the same as ones produced 20 years back – as they have extensions for everything from Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) to Hardware-Assisted Virtualization (VT-d).

InterSystems would like to take better advantage of these new extensions in upcoming versions of InterSystems IRIS.  While our compilers are smart enough to create optimized code for many situations, some optimizations can only be turned on by explicitly cutting off support for processors that do not have that instruction set. Additionally, we are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain older CPU models to test on.

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Question MikeC · May 4, 2025

We are receiving an ORU message and the vendor is requesting that we append a new OBX segment at the end of the message and I wanted to reach out to see what options might be available. 

So far, I tried the append action in the DTL editor with a single OBX-3 field but it seems to be appending to the field directly instead of creating a new OBX. I've started looking into if whether I could use a function but wanted to first check with the experts on the Discussion here in case there's an easier way to accomplish this. Thank you. 

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Question Scott Roth · May 6, 2025

I am trying to replicate a REST call that I am able to make via a Postman call within a EnsLib.REST.GenericOperation.

It's been a while since I have messed around with trying to make external REST calls. When I execute my REST call, tSC is coming back with an error and I am trying to pinpoint why. I tried turning on ISCLOG = 5 but when calling the REST Operation from the Testing tool it is not logging anything to the ISC log.

How do we see the RAW request being sent out to verify that my request is formatted properly? tSC is coming back with an error as the message displayed in the error is "Err

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Article Padmaja Konduru · May 6, 2025 3m read

It helps to remove special characters, such as non-utf-8 characters either control characters or unicode characters from text that is not printable or can't be parsed by downstream systems.

There is also $C(32) in this condition; sometimes NBSP appears in the text and it will not be recognized by TIE, but downstream it displays as "?".

In order to avoid the NBSP issue, the if condition is replaced with a space in order to prevent the error.

Unicode characters only Remove:

Class Test.Utility.FunctionSet Extends %RegisteredObject
{ 
ClassMethod ConvertTextToAscii(text As %String) As %String
{
 Set (str

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Question Scott Roth · Jan 28, 2025

Epic had changed some of their logic on their Incoming Radiology Results which now require an Ordering Provider even though it is supposed to account for it within the Epic Interface settings.

I was wondering if we are using a custom schema if there was a way to default a value into OBR:16 if it was not valued without having to modify all the DTL's for these Results.

Is there a way to set this via the schema editor or in the background so we don't have to create/update DTL's or create a custom TCP Operation Class??

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Question Ganesh Jagtap · May 1, 2025

Hi all,

I'm reviewing an older Cache routine and came across this line of code: from file ^ZDBKCRON

S $ZT="^%ETSDK"

Error trap

/home/oper/script/cache_db_backup -t        # Daily CacheDB Backup

 produced the following output:

 <NOROUTINE> *%ETSDK
<ERRTRAP>

-----------

From what I understand, this is setting up an error trap, but I'm not entirely clear on how it works, especially in modern InterSystems IRIS environments.

Could someone please help explain:

  1. What exactly does this line do?
  2. Is %ETSDK a standard system routine? I can't find it in our environment.
  3. What is the best practice for error
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