New in HealthShare Health Connect 2026.1

A flexible extension to X12 SNIP-level validation is now available for configuration, allowing users to invoke custom, field-level business rules directly within the standard validation workflow. This enhancement enables organizations to enforce additional data quality and compliance requirements without introducing separate post-processing steps. By executing custom validation during SNIP processing, users can maintain performance while meeting trading partner–specific and organizational validation standards.

This release introduces the Mirth Connect Conversion Tool, which accelerates migration from Mirth Connect to Health Connect. The tool supports faster, more structured migration engagements by providing automated assessment and partial conversion of existing integrations. It helps users understand migration scope upfront, reduce manual effort, and shorten time to value during integration engine replacement.

The CDA Validation Service is now available as an add-on for Health Connect Cloud (versions 2026.1+). It provides cloud-based validation of CDA 2.0 and C-CDA documents to improve data quality and interoperability in data exchange. This service helps healthcare organizations proactively identify structural and content-level data gaps before documents are exchanged, reported, or consumed by downstream systems. By improving document quality and alignment with USCDI-based CDA standards, organizations can reduce claim denials, minimize operational rework, strengthen compliance efforts, and increase trust in shared clinical data. Fully integrated with Health Connect Cloud, the service expands data integrity capabilities while supporting broader governance and quality initiatives.

Table partitioning enables users to manage large tables more efficiently by splitting data across multiple databases based on a logical scheme. For example, you can partition a table by date ranges in a DateTime field, allowing older data to be moved to a database mounted on a lower-cost storage tier while keeping frequently accessed current data on premium storage. The data structure for partitioned tables also provides operational and performance benefits as tables grow very large (for example, beyond one billion rows).

As this is a broad new product capability, it will be delivered in phases. This release introduces core partitioning and bucketing capabilities, allowing you to create new partitioned tables, convert existing tables to partitioned tables, and move partitions to specific databases. The query optimizer takes advantage of these partitions, when appropriate, to improve query performance. Future releases will add functionality such as support for sharded tables and tables with columnar storage. See the documentation for more details.

• When a specific host is selected, the Production Toolbar now displays actions specific to that host. A new setting also allows you to enable or disable connection lines to all hosts, or to show only the primary host connections when a host is selected.

• You can now change a host class using an action in the new toolbar.

• When different classes are used for hosts with the same name, the host name in the inspector panel (on the right) appears as a dropdown, allowing you to toggle between hosts with the same name. In the Production Configuration view, these hosts are grouped under the same name, with the number of same-name hosts displayed to the left of the host name.

• Global filtering in the left-side Collections panel now allows bulk filtering across hosts, productions, DTLs, and more.

• The File Path Directory selector is now enabled.

• You can now copy a host name as text using the copy icon next to the host name.

• Improved UI performance for larger productions, such as those with more than 2,000 hosts.

• User interface is localized to the supported languages.

• You can now collapse or expand production items (such as Rule Sets, Data Transformations, or Business Processes) in the Collections panel on the left.

• Introduced a new user experience for Message Viewer and Message Search.

• A history of recent searches is now available for easy access and reuse.

• When a historical search is selected to filter Message Viewer results, the Search History icon is highlighted to indicate that a filtered view is active.

• Expedite onboarding and project handovers by activating the new opt-in DTL Explainer feature. When a writable DTL is displayed in the DTL Editor, a Generate New button appears next to the Description. This button enables you to generate an AI Description for the displayed DTL using an LLM (OpenAI GPT-5.2). You can review the contents of the AI Description in a draft view. Afterward, you can insert or replace the description with the AI Description. Text within the description field can be edited as appropriate. This feature requires configuration with your OpenAI license to activate. Compatibility with other LLM Providers will be added in the future.

• New visual cues in the DTL Editor indicate whether a segment or field is required, optional, or deprecated.

• Hovering over a property in the DTL Editor now displays additional information about that property.

• Users can opt in to use the new BPL user experience.

• A new tree view visualizes the current context and allows navigation up and down the tree.

• The new BPL Editor user interface is now embedded in VS Code.

• The Rule Editor activity timeout has been increased to 30 minutes.

• Improved readability when editing target hosts in the Send action editor.