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Introducing HealthShare Health Connect Cloud

HealthShare® Health Connect Cloud™ is an integration engine in the cloud that provides a reliable, secure, low maintenance solution for connecting any number of healthcare systems, modern or legacy. Based on InterSystems HealthShare Health Connect™, Health Connect Cloud supports all of the common messaging standards, including FHIR®, HL7v2 and HL7v3, IHE Profiles, CDA/C-CDA, DICOM, X12, and more. This allows you to exchange information securely with other healthcare organizations, clinicians, and public health agencies and store every message moving through these integrated systems. Health Connect Cloud offers guaranteed message delivery, built-in data transformations, superior monitoring, high performance, and robust auditing without the burden of setting up and maintaining its infrastructure.

Follow the easy steps in this introduction to get up and running.

For information on the day-to-day management of Health Connect Cloud, see HealthShare Health Connect Cloud Reference Information.

To learn how a development team can work together using Health Connect Cloud, see Tenants PageOpens in a new tab.

Log in to the Cloud Services Portal

The InterSystems Cloud Services Portal allows you to manage Health Connect Cloud and any additional InterSystems cloud services.

If you have an account in the Cloud Services PortalOpens in a new tab, log in to the portal.

If you do not have an account, sign up for one, as follows:

  1. In your browser, go to the Cloud Services Portal create new account pageOpens in a new tab.

  2. On the Create a New Account page, enter the requested information, and click Create Account.

  3. Type the verification code sent to the email account you provided, and click Submit.

After you create your new account, you are taken to the Cloud Services page.

Sign Up for Health Connect Cloud

You can create a Health Connect Cloud subscription from the Cloud Services page of the Cloud Services Portal.

To subscribe to Health Connect Cloud:

  1. In Cloud Services Portal, on the main menu, click Cloud Services.

    The Cloud Services page shows you any active subscriptions you have to InterSystems cloud services and allows you to sign up for additional services.

  2. On the Health Connect Cloud card, click Subscribe.

  3. On the Subscribe page, read the pricing information and subscription options, and then Subscribe using the method of your choice.

    If you subscribe to Health Connect Cloud with InterSystems, we will bill you directly. If you subscribe with your current cloud provider, billing and subscription management are handled through your account with that cloud provider.

You can also subscribe to Health Connect Cloud and other InterSystems cloud services directly from the AWS MarketplaceOpens in a new tab.

When you subscribe to Health Connect Cloud, the subscription is tied to your Cloud Services Portal account and your default tenantOpens in a new tab.

Create a Health Connect Cloud Deployment

Once you have signed up for Health Connect Cloud, you are ready to deploy it in the cloud. If you are a subscriber, you can create multiple deployments, for example, development, test, and live.

Note:

If you have just subscribed to Health Connect Cloud in the AWS Marketplace, you may need to wait a few minutes for the subscription to be finalized. You can check to see if this has occurred by checking the Cloud Services page in the Cloud Services Portal and seeing if Health Connect Cloud is listed under Active Subscriptions.

  1. In the Cloud Services Portal, on the main menu, click Deployments.

  2. On the Deployments page, click Create New Deployment.

  3. On the Create InterSystems IRIS Deployment page, in the Deployment Options section:

    1. Under HealthShare Services, select Health Connect Cloud.

    2. Under Deployment Size, select a size.

      Information is shown for the workload that can be handled for that size.

      Micro is the only size currently allowed. Contact us using iService if you require larger sizes. (For more information, see Getting HelpOpens in a new tab.)

    3. Optionally, select Highly Available (HA) Configuration to deploy a mirrored backup server automatically to minimize or eliminate downtime to Health Connect Cloud.

      Only one deployment with an HA configuration is allowed.

      This feature cannot be enabled or disabled after the deployment is created.

    4. Under Network Configuration, select a private network address for this deployment.

    5. Click Continue.

  4. In the Cloud Options section:

    1. Under Cloud Provider, select a provider.

      AWS is the only provider currently available.

    2. Under Region, select a region.

    3. Click Continue.

  5. In the Deployment Name section:

    1. Type a name for your deployment.

      This cannot be changed once created.

    2. Click Continue.

  6. In the Review section:

    1. Review the summary information.

    2. Click Create.

It takes several minutes to deploy Health Connect Cloud. When the deployment has completed, the status under the deployment name changes to COMPLETE.

Click the card for the deployment to go to the Overview page for your new deployment. This page contains summary information, including your deployment’s Deployment ID. For more information, see Overview Page.

The Deployment ID uniquely identifies your deployment. If a deployment has a status where you cannot access the deployment’s Overview page (for example, CREATING or UPDATING), its card on the Deployments page will display the Deployment ID.

Other actions are available by clicking the action menu at the top right of the card, such as setting the Service Level for the deployment or deleting the deployment. For more information, see Deployments pageOpens in a new tab.

Note:

You cannot delete a Health Connect Cloud deployment that is attached to a Network ConnectOpens in a new tab deployment. You must detach it from Network Connect before proceeding.

For more information on managing Health Connect Cloud deployments, see HealthShare Health Connect Cloud Reference Information.

Use Source Control with Health Connect Cloud

InterSystems provides you with an instance of GitLab for you to manage your Health Connect Cloud interoperability projects. You can access GitLab from the CI/CD Pipeline menu option.

See the following resources for information on recommended source control best practices.

Managing Interfaces with GitLab for InterSystems Cloud ServicesOpens in a new tab (documentation)

Building Health Connect Cloud Interfaces with Source ControlOpens in a new tab (online learning)

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