Building a Medical History Chatbot - FHIR, Vector Search and RAG for beginners

Introduction Earlier this year, I set about creating kit to introduce young techy folk at a Health Tech hackathon to using InterSystems IRIS for health, particularly focusing on using FHIR and vector search. I wanted to publish this to the developer community because the tutorials included in the kit make a great introduction to using FHIR and to building a basic RAG system in IRIS. Its an all inclusive set of tutorials to show in detail how to: Connect to IRIS with Python Use the InterSystems FHIR Server Convert FHIR data into relational data with the FHIR-SQL builder Use InterSystems Vector Search As a bonus using Ollama to prompt local AI models This repo contains a full series of Jupyter Notebook tutorials for developing a medical history chatbot, as well as various other tutorials on using a FHIR server, so forgive me if this article is slightly light technical detail, but there's plenty of information in the linked Open Exchange Package! Designing the Demo The design brief I was