#InterSystems IRIS for Health

IPM version 0.10.7 was released on May 29th, 2026. As usual, you can check it out on the GitHub page or through the Community Registry.

Highlighted Features

Utility Scripts iriscli and ipm

IPM is now bundled with two convenience scripts that are runnable from a standard terminal. iriscli launches an interactive IRIS terminal and runs IPM commands directly. These are automatically installed to both ~/.local/bin/ and , so they work inside and outside of containers (Unix/Linux only).

Examples:

Hey everyone.

My team and I have a rare opportunity to start from scratch, and I am keen to know what things others that have gone through a similar process did differently. Obviously there's the immediate benefit of losing any technical debt that has built up over 10+ years of an ever changing environment along with many organisational changes and merges, but I'm thinking about the things that we can do to make life a lot easier for the next 10+ years.

I'm approaching the need to send notifications through a Microsoft Exchange or Gmail servers. however my last foray into this, I was blocked due to an issue inside my SSL certificate is what I thought after the attempt.

So my attention will be on trying to match the cryptography in the SSL certificate I produce compared to the mail server I'm trying to use.

Has anyone else had an issue with this approach? My other option is Amazon SNS potentially. I do have a functional MS Teams channel for alerts, and can make different notification channels as well.

Any help or insights are appreciated. 

We have a long running InterSystems Engine with an Interface Development Team.  We have implemented basic interface and code development processes using mostly manually created helper tasks and functions.
We are looking to upgrade these processes by installing and starting to use Embedded GIT in our DEV spaces first.  We will not use it to deploy changes to PRODUCTION at first, keeping our same current process that the team is very comfortable with.  
We plan to start by using the BASIC mode in GIT, to avoid confusion over multiple branches and other version control functions.

Hi Developers!

Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems Programming Contest: AI Agents for FHIR that will give you extra points in the voting:

• Implement suggested task - 5
• InterSystems FHIR Server usage - 2
• Vector Search usage - 4
• Embedded Python - 3
• LLM AI or LangChain usage: Chat GPT, Bard, and others - 3
• Docker container usage - 2 
• ZPM Package deployment - 2
• Online Demo - 2
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• Find a bug in Vector Search or Embedded Python - 2
• First Article on Developer Community - 2
• Second Article On DC - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3
• Video on YouTube - 3

Welcome back to a series of introductory articles on AI Hub, the new product feature currently in an early access program! (links: EAP Site for download, documentation)

In the last article, we covered how to create agents and agent tools directly in ObjectScript using the new %AI classes. However, sometimes, instead of creating a new agent, you just want to add some custom tools to an existing agent so you can ask your local claude code, codex, copilot or other agent of choice to query your data directly. This is where MCP Servers might come in.

Hi Community,

In traditional InterSystems SQL, I can use the %NOINDEX keyword during a bulk INSERT to improve performance and then run BUILD INDEX %ALL afterward to populate the indices.

I am looking to implement a similar strategy for an InterSystems FHIR Server.

1. Is there a way to import/save FHIR resources while skipping the search table extraction (the FHIR version of %NOINDEX)?
2. Once the data is loaded, what is the correct programmatic way to "rebuild" the search tables?

Thank you!

Hi Community,

Interoperability metrics were enabled for a production using ##class(Ens.Util.Statistics).EnableSAMForNamespace(). However, after running DisableSAMForNamespace() and DisableStatsForProduction(), the metrics continue to appear in the endpoint output.

Is there a way to completely stop these interoperability metrics from displaying in the API metrics stream? Is there an additional step or cache clear required?

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite everyone to the upcoming Kick-off Webinar for InterSystems Programming Contest: AI Agents for FHIR!

Date & Time: Tuesday, May 26 – 12 pm EDT | 6 pm CEST  

Hi Developers,

We are happy to announce the new InterSystems online programming contest:

🏆 InterSystems Programming Contest: AI Agents for FHIR🏆

Duration: May 25 - June 14, 2026

Prize pool: $12,000

IRIS is installed and running in an Ubuntu VM.

Visual Studio Code is being used in the host Windows OS and is connected to the IRIS server.

When attempting to execute commands with sudo from the InterSystems Lite Terminal in VSCode using $ZF(-100), error code 127 is returned.

I tried configuring Ubuntu to avoid password prompts by adding the following line to /etc/sudoers.tmp:

ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

However, the above configuration did not work.

Is there a way to execute sudo commands from InterSystems IRIS Production ObjectScript code in Ubuntu?

Good afternoon,

I have received a WSDL.

I have imported it successfully in HealthShare.

The external is requesting me to send messages with the following structure (using the auto-generated SOAP Bussiness Operation from the WSDL), as you see they need a custom http header titled "Appian-API-Key", as the following:

            curl --request POST \
              --url [ endpoint ] \
              --header 'Appian-API-Key:  << API KEY >> \
              --header 'Content-Type: application/xml' \
              --data '<?xml version='\''1.0'\'' encoding='\''utf-8'\''?>
            <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv='\''http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'\''>
              <soapenv:Body>
                <tns:acceptMessage xmlns:tns='\''http://ws.connectors.connect.mirth.com/'\''>
                <![CDATA[  Message  ]]>
                </tns:acceptMessage>
              </soapenv:Body>
            </soapenv:Envelope>'

Over the years, we keep monitoring Orphan Messages, and I have begun to notice the number of ACK/NCK's that do not match the Scheme in which the message was sent so it can't not align or signify that the message was OK. For example, if we send an ADT^A08 HL7 message to the vendor, and they send back a A08 instead of an ACK as the message type.

Currently our default is to have Save Replies on EnsLib.HL7.Operation set to IndexNotOk's.

Hello Community,  

What is the most efficient, memory-safe way to get the names of the corrupted indexes on very large tables for a rebuild. However, if an index has millions of corrupted rows, the .errors array in %ValidateIndices grows too large and throws a errorerror.

InterSystems is pleased to announce the general availability of:

• InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2026.1.0.237.3
• InterSystems IRIS for Health 2026.1.0.237.3
• HealthShare Health Connect 2026.1.0.237.3

This release adds support for the Ubuntu 26.04 operating system.  Ubuntu 26.04 includes Linux kernel 7.0, security improvements, along with installer and user interface improvements.  

We are only releasing IRIS for Intel/AMD (x86_64) processors at this time.  We've seen occasional network problems on ARM servers.

Hi Community,

Do you build and manage applications with InterSystems IRIS SQL?

🎓Two tiers of certifications—specialist and professional (new!)—are now available! 

 I’m looking for recommendations to improve interoperability performance in InterSystems IRIS, especially when handling large volumes of HL7 or healthcare-related messages.

What are the best practices for optimizing productions, business services, operations, and message processing performance? I’d also like to know if there are recommended monitoring tools or settings commonly used in production environments.

Hi Community,

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#North American Demo Showcase entry. 

>> Answer the question below to be entered in the raffle!

⏯️ ExplantIQ: Ask Your Compliance Data Anything

ExplantIQ is an intelligent data application that tackles one of healthcare's most overlooked financial and regulatory risks: the management of explanted medical device warranty credits. When an implanted device is removed from a patient (due to failure or recall) hospitals are legally required to pursue manufacturer credits, refund payers if the credit exceeds 50% of the device's cost, and report to CMS. Miss that obligation and you're facing a reverse False Claims Act violation. Industry data shows hospitals miss 81% of eligible credits. 

ExplantIQ, built entirely on InterSystems IRIS for Health and DeepSee, solves this by unifying clinical, supply chain, billing, and FDA recall data into a single real-time compliance dashboard, complete with KPI scorecards, trend analytics, and a Text-to-SQL AI Assistant that lets compliance officers query live operational data in plain English. No separate BI tool. No additional architecture. All questions can be answered without leaving your browser tab.

Special thanks to @Emil Polakiewicz and @Boris Mamkin for their contributions. 

🗣 Presenter: @Alyssa Ross, Sales Engineer at InterSystems

#North American Demo Showcase entry. 

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⏯️ Health Galaxy: AI-Enabling Healthcare Applications

Health Galaxy creates an AI access point on top of any FHIR server, bringing healthcare into the AI future that has become a reality for many other industries. 

• AI access: Health Galaxy gives AI agents a single gateway into any healthcare system, so they can pull patient data, schedule appointments, and check insurance automatically instead of a human doing it manually. 
• Ease of use: You point it at an existing FHIR endpoint, click a button, and it generates an MCP endpoint automatically from the capability statement. 
• FHIR: Since we are using FHIR, we can leverage both the storage and exchange capabilities of InterSystems IRIS.

🗣 Presenter: @Zelong Wang, Sales Engineer at InterSystems 

#North American Demo Showcase entry. 

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⏯️ Triage Chatbot

We are using IRIS for Health to develop an agentic AI chatbot workflow that can interact with a patient using voice commands, reach out to an EHR or other system for context, and provide recommendations back.

Presenters: 
🗣 @Vic Sun, Sales Engineer at InterSystems 
🗣 @Brad Nissenbaum, Sales Engineer at InterSystems 
🗣 Danielle Micciantuono, Clinical Solutions Specialist at InterSystems

What is the recommended approach for handling upgrades in an InterSystems IRIS Kubernetes environment?

For example, if we deploy version 1.0.0 of our product and subsequently need to upgrade to 1.0.1, and this upgrade requires changes to SQL tables containing customer data.

The quickest solution that comes to mind is creating an 'upgrade method' that runs on startup to check if any data migration actions are required. However, I'm wondering if there are better solutions or established best practices for this.

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

I’m thrilled to share that after several years of deep diving into the InterSystems IRIS data platform, I have finally summarized my project experiences into a new book IRIS (Data Platform) Programming Technical Guide. It is published by Beihang University Press, a prestigious central-level comprehensive publisher renowned for its leading role in aerospace, science, and technology publishing.

Writing this book was a significant engineering challenge for me. My goal was to bridge the gap between "understanding the syntax" and "building a production-ready project.

Hello Community!

We’re excited to invite you to our upcoming Hebrew webinar, presented by @Keren Skubach, an InterSystems Senior Sales Engineer:

👉A Practical Guide to Leveraging AWS Adapters and APIs 👈

📅 Date & time: June 2nd, 3:00 PM IDT

Discover how to accelerate cloud-based integration with InterSystems' native AWS adapters for S3, SQS, SNS, and CloudWatch.

This session provides a practical look at building modern interoperability workflows — from secure file ingestion and asynchronous messaging to automated notifications and centralized monitoring.

Data privacy regulations such as GDPR, LGPD, and HIPAA demand that organizations know exactly where Personally Identifiable Information (PII) lives inside their databases. Yet in practice, most teams rely on manual inventories, tribal knowledge, or external scanning tools that require data to leave the database engine — a process that itself creates privacy and security risks.

This article presents an MVP that takes a different approach: it runs PII detection inside InterSystems IRIS using Embedded Python, analyzing data where it lives and never exporting it to an external process.

I want to develop a REST API for uploading PDF files. I started with OPENAPI spec file. When I test, I get error 8727 referencing missing required parameter file.

"{"$c(13,10,9)"""errors"":[ {"$c(13,10,9,9,9)"""code"":8727,"$c(13,10,9,9,9)"""domain"":""%ObjectErrors"","$c(13,10,9,9,9)"""error"":""ERROR #8727: Parameter required: file."","$c(13,10,9,9,9)"""id"":""RESTRequired"","$c(13,10,9,9,9)"""params"":[""file"""$c(13,10,9,9,9)"]"$c(13,10,9,9)"}"$c(13,10,9)"],"$c(13,10,9)"""summary"":""ERROR #8727: Parameter required: file.

Hi Everyone,

We are looking for a way to disable production Business Services concurrently so that the whole process takes shorter amount time than just going sequentially in a loop and disable them one at a time (very slow). This is necessary for us to be able to stop all traffic to IRIS so that no data remains after we perform full production stop. 

Thank you!   

Introduction

In healthcare interoperability environments, InterSystems Health Connect typically contains critical components such as productions, business processes, operations, services, utility classes, routines, and other ObjectScript artifacts. Traditionally, many deployments of these components have been done manually, by copying classes, importing XML, or using administrative tools from the management portal.

For those of you that weren't at READY last week, you may have missed the exciting announcement that the Early Access Program for AI Hub is officially open. It was announced during an amazing demo from @Benjamin De Boe and @Jeff Fried, I recommend catching up with this demo when the recording is released!  I had the opportunity to play with AI Hub in advance, and thought I might share an introduction with the community.