
This year, take on the InterSystems Challenge and build your solution using one — or both — of our powerful technologies: InterSystems GenAI (Vector Search) and FHIR, with 24/7 mentor support throughout the event.
Technology Provided
InterSystems IRIS Vector Search
You will gain access to the InterSystems IRIS data platform, which now supports Vector Search. Use Python / SQL / Langchain / Llamaindex to easily search your data with the power of embedding models, and build RAG on your data.
InterSystems IRIS Vector Search is our new vector store feature within the IRIS Data Platform. But we're not a "vector database" just like we're not a "string database" or "integer database" -- embedding vectors are just another SQL datatype for us!
InterSystems IRIS data platform gives you the tools to seamlessly integrate GenAI, tabular AutoML, data interoperability, using simple SQL or Python LangChain/Llamaindex connectors.
Why use Vector Search for your healthcare solution?
Healthcare data is messy, unstructured, and full of nuance — clinical notes, discharge summaries, trial criteria, research papers, patient messages. Use Vector Search if you want to:
- Build a clinical AI assistant grounded in real patient data
- Search across unstructured notes, PDFs, or guidelines semantically
- Match patients to trials based on meaning, not exact wording
- Create RAG applications that reason over healthcare knowledge
- Surface similar cases, symptoms, or outcomes instantly
If your idea involves natural language, similarity, recommendations, or AI-powered insights — Vector Search is your foundation.
InterSystems FHIR Server
You will gain access to the InterSystems IRIS data platform, which provides a fully integrated FHIR Server with seamless support for healthcare interoperability.
Easily store, search, and exchange FHIR resources while leveraging the power of FHIRPath, SQL, and RESTful APIs for efficient data access and management.
With InterSystems IRIS for Health, you can ingest, transform, and integrate healthcare data from various formats (HL7v2, CDA, DICOM, X12, and more) into FHIR while ensuring compliance with industry standards.
Why use FHIR for your healthcare solution?
Healthcare systems don’t talk to each other well — and that’s a massive innovation gap. FHIR is the standard that makes health data structured, interoperable, and ready for integration.
Use FHIR if you want to:
- Build apps that integrate with EHR-style data models
- Normalize messy healthcare data into a standard format
- Exchange patient, observation, medication, or encounter data
- Design solutions that could realistically plug into hospitals
- Ensure your idea aligns with industry interoperability standards
If your idea involves structured clinical data, system integration, or scalable healthcare infrastructure — start with FHIR.
Use FHIR to structure and standardize healthcare data — and Vector Search to make that data intelligent, searchable, and AI-ready.
Follow the steps from the InterSystems FHIR-AI-Hackathon-Kit to get started:
Video: InterSystems FHIR and AI Hackathon Kit Walkthrough
Judging Criteria
▶ Innovation
▶ Real-world impact
▶ Use of InterSystems technology
▶ Technical coherence
We are looking for: clear problem in healthcare; smart use of GenAI (Vector Search) and/or FHIR; thoughtful data model and system design; realistic path to MVP or startup; clear explanation of impact.
Prizes
Learning Materials on Vector Search
Learning Materials on FHIR and Interoperability
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About InterSystems
Established in 1978, InterSystems Corporation is the leading provider of data technology for extremely critical data in healthcare, finance, and logistics. It’s cloud-first data platforms solve interoperability, speed, and scalability problems for large organizations around the globe.
InterSystems Corporation is ranked by Gartner, KLAs, Forrester and other industry analysts as the global leader in Data Access and Interoperability. InterSystems is the global market leader in Healthcare and Financial Services.





