#Health Connect

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InterSystems HealthShare Health Connect is a healthcare integration engine that delivers high-volume transaction support, process management, and monitoring to support mission-critical applications. 

At the heart of Health Connect is a high-performance, multi-model data engine that seamlessly handles multiple forms of data at high speed. Health Connect easily scales from serving small clinics to handling the transaction volumes of the largest and most complex healthcare delivery systems in the world. Capabilities include:

  • Interoperability by design
  • Mirroring with fast failover recovery
  • Source control for HL7 schemas
  • Intuitive drag-and-drop HL7 schema editing
  • A flexible, adaptable security model and more
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Article Tani Frankel · Jun 18 2m read

As part of a focus we are putting on improving the speed of ingestion of FHIR payloads, in v2026.2 (available as of now as a Developer Preview), we are introducing an option to skip structure validation of resources. This could save for example 25% of the time, which in large scale ingestions, could be significant.

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Question liu bo · Jun 15

<UNDEFINED>ServerLoop+1^%SYS.DBSRV *%qlogging,ERROR <Ens>ErrOutConnectFailed: 'jdbc:opengauss://host:15400/healthcare_data' / 'NHIPProd' 的 JDBC 连接失败,出现错误 ERROR #5023: Remote Gateway Error: JDBC Gateway connection failed for jdbc:opengauss://172.17.211.39:15400/healthcare_data error: -1

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Question Joshua Wigley · Jun 9

Hey All!

I wanted to reach out and get some advice on the best way to interact with a external SQL database, as I'm finding the documentation quite confusing to follow. I'm new to using SQL within InterSystem, and I want to make sure I'm following the best practices.

In essence, what I am trying to achieve, is extracting certain values from a HL7 message and then insert those message field values into an external database. The ODBC, DSN and Credentials details are all setup and working correctly.

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Question Scott Roth · Jun 15

Using the SOAP wizard many moons ago, I had setup a process to get Patient Demographics, and the current Visit Location from Epic for processing HL7 DFT Charge Messages.

Within the past week we have had two cases where the Outbound SOAP Adapter has been throwing Errors (Exceptions) where in this case 

NO-PATIENT-FOUND details: No patient found with the provided ID and ID type.

The error is not being sent back in the Response to the Business Process that sent the call. The Response comes back blank.

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Question Ciaran Mooney · Jun 15

Hi all,

I'm looking for some advice on a DTL issue.

I'm working on an HL7 DTL where I need to populate MSH-6 / Receiving Facility using a combination of literal text and values from the PD1 Patient Primary Care Provider field.

The required MSH-6 value needs to be something like:

MCNIMCNumber.PracticeID

Where:

  • MCN is a literal string
  • IMCNumber comes from PD1
  • PracticeID comes from PD1

For the IMC number, the direct source path that works is:

source.{PIDgrpgrp().PIDgrp.PD1(3).assigningauthority.namespaceID}

If I assign this direct path straight into MSH-6, the value populates.

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Article Keren Skubach · Jun 15 4m read

Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) is a managed message queue service that provides a simple, durable, and scalable mechanism for exchanging messages between applications. It is particularly well suited for event-driven integration patterns and loosely coupled architectures.

Bear in mind that the AWS SQS adapter is based on InterSystems PEX Network and requires the Java External Server to be enabled.

Java external server

When using Amazon SQS you can either take the role of a Consumer or a Publisher.


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Announcement Sean Connelly · Jun 13

 

I'm pleased to share that FHIR Agent Studio is now running as a live, hosted demo on the InterSystems Developer Cloud — no install, no setup, just open it in a browser.

FHIR Agent Studio is a developer portal for building, running, and inspecting AI agents for FHIR workflows on a single InterSystems IRIS for Health backend.

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Article Sean Connelly · Jun 7 7m read

AI is going to change healthcare, but only if clinicians can trust it and developers can build it without reinventing the plumbing every time. FHIR Agent Studio is my attempt at both: a place to build AI agents for FHIR workflows from reusable building blocks, run them on a real InterSystems IRIS for Health backend, and inspect exactly what each one did at every step.

It is my entry in the InterSystems AI Agents for FHIR contest, and it ships with twelve working agents over a synthetic FHIR repository of around 1,000 patients and 20,000 resources.

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InterSystems Official Bob Kuszewski · Jun 10

We released the x64_64 Ubuntu 26.04 build back on May 21st.  At the time we said that we were holding off on releasing ARM support due to come occasional network problems we found in testing.  We've worked with Ubuntu to resolve those issues - a bug in a vendor's network driver - and are pleased to say...

 InterSystems announces 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 for both ARM and x86_64 processors

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Question Don Martin · Sep 5, 2025

We have a task that runs objectscript code to load data into a linked external table.  After upgrading from 2024.1 to 2025.1, the load is throwing an error, with error code -400, and no error message.  The data DOES get loaded into the external table in its entirety, so with no meaningful error message, its hard to determine what the issue is.  The result is the same with and without the USING clause, so don't let that confuse you.

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Article Sean Connelly · Jun 8 1m read

 

I’m pleased to share a demo of FHIR Agent Studio, now available on YouTube.

FHIR Agent Studio Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vktfq_kvNnk

FHIR Agent Studio brings AI agents together with FHIR, InterSystems IRIS, Vector Search, and large language models to demonstrate how developers can explore, build, and test agent-driven healthcare workflows.

You can also find more information here:

Introduction article: https://community.intersystems.com/post/introducing-fhir-agent-studio-ai-agents-fhir-intersystems-iris

GitHub repository: https://github.com/SeanConnelly/ai-studio-for-fhir

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Discussion Julian Matthews · May 29

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.

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Question Ashok Kumar Thangavel · May 28

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!

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Question Ashok Kumar Thangavel · May 28

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?

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Question Scott Roth · May 22

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.

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InterSystems Official Bob Kuszewski · May 21

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.

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Announcement Lynn Wu · Apr 14

#North American Demo Showcase entry. 

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


⏯️ HL7 Validation Error Profiler: Rapid Insights into Batch HL7 Data Quality Issues

This demo highlights how HL7 validation logs can be transformed into scalable, actionable data quality insights using a lightweight application built on top of Health Connect.

  • Batch ingestion and parsing of HL7 validation error logs into structured data
  • Aggregation of errors by segment, field, and type to reveal systemic issues
  • Interactive dashboard (Streamlit) for filtering, exploration, and root cause analysis
  • Rapid identification of top error patterns across entire data feeds
  • Natural language chatbot for intent-driven data investigation and querying
  • PDF report generation for sharing clear, evidence-based feedback during data source onboarding 

Special thanks to @Henry Wojnicki for his contributions to designing and refining the application workflow.

🗣 Presenter: @Lynn Wu, Sales Engineer at InterSystems

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Announcement Ronnie Hershkovitz · May 17

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.

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InterSystems Official Daniel Palevski · Feb 3

The third developer previews of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health, and InterSystemsHealth Connect™ 2026.1 have been posted to the WRC developer preview site.  Containers can be found on our container registry and are tagged latest-preview.

These developer previews includes the dropping of Mac Intel support starting from 2026.1.0, and the adding back of Windows Server 2019 support to 2026.1.0.

Initial documentation can be found at these links below:

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Question Scott Roth · Apr 23

Was wondering if anyone had a Dynamic way to see if a Global is still being used by a Class File. 

We have been monitoring our Global Size recently, and I am trying to find problematic Class files that are not being cleaned up or used appropriately. I have come across some globals that do not seem to have a Class attached to them anymore, and instead of deleting globals 1 by 1, I was looking for a way that we could dynamically do this since the globals have data that is stale in them.

Thanks

Scott

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InterSystems Official Bob Kuszewski · Apr 29

Below is an update to the IRIS release calendar for 2026 and an early look at the planned changes for 2027. The key takeaway for 2026 is that maintenance release numbering will differ slightly from prior years.

2026: IRIS 2026.1 maintenance release numbering

  • July 2026: first maintenance release for IRIS 2026.1 (planned version: 2026.1.4)
  • October 2026: next maintenance release (planned version: 2026.1.5)
  • February 2027: following maintenance release (planned version: 2026.1.6)

This numbering change prepares us for the expanded maintenance cadence planned for 2027.

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Article Ariel Glikman · Sep 16, 2025 14m read

One of the recommendations when deploying InterSystems Technologies for production is to set up High Availability. The recommended API Manager for these InterSystems Technologies is the InterSystems API Manager (IAM). IAM (essentially Kong Gateway) has multiple deployment topologies.

If you are looking for high availability you could use:

a) Kong Traditional Mode: Multiple Node Clusters

b) Hybrid Mode

c) DB-less Mode

Before we break them down let's first understand the out of the box deployment that is provided by InterSystems: Installing IAM Version 3.10.

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InterSystems Official Aya Heshmat · Mar 27, 2025 4m read

The Interoperability user interface now includes modernized user experiences for the DTL Editor and Production Configuration applications that are available for opt-in in all interoperability products. You can switch between the modernized and standard views. All other Interoperability screens remain in the Standard user interface. Please note that changes are limited to these two applications and we identify below the functionality that is currently available. 

To try out the new screens prior to upgrading, you can download the 2025.

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Article Tani Frankel · Apr 26 1m read

A very important feature for HL7 FHIR has been introduced with the release of v2026.1 - the support for SMART on FHIR v2 fine-grained granular Scopes.

This enables you to be much stricter and more accurate in the access you provide to the data in your FHIR repository.

Part of this new support is to refuse requests that don't match the scopes, but an even more interesting ability is to filter the results according to the provided scopes.

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InterSystems Official Daniel Palevski · Mar 25

The 2026.1 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health, and InterSystems Health Connect™ is now Generally Available (GA). This is an Extended Maintenance (EM) release.

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Article Kristina Lauer · Apr 23 2m read

Hi Community,

Take a look at these new videos in online learning, and get familiar with new features and interfaces in the latest release of InterSystems® products. All videos are also available in the Learning Services YouTube channel.

Plus, check out a video for new ObjectScript developers, and a guide for HealthShare® users upgrading their deployments.

Videos for the Latest Release of InterSystems Products

  • Goal: Learn about enhancements to the interoperability UI in version 2026.1 of InterSystems products.
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InterSystems Official Daniel Palevski · Apr 15

The 2025.1.4 and 2024.1.6 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health, and InterSystemsHealth Connect™ are now Generally Available (GA). These releases include the fixes for a number of recently issued alerts and advisories, including the following: 

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