Skip to content
Search to learn about InterSystems products and solutions, career opportunities, and more.

HealthShare Unified Care Record Deployment Specialist

HealthShare, Unified Care Record, HealthShare deployment

The HealthShare Unified Care Record Deployment Specialist exam is designed to validate core skills for technical specialists who deploy, secure, and maintain HealthShare Unified Care Record environments.

Exam Details

Target Exam Role

An IT professional who does all of the following:

  • deploys and upgrades Unified Care Record environments
  • securely configures individual gateways and components
  • maintains the operational health and stability of Unified Care Record environments

Recommended Practical Experience

  • At least 6-12 months full-time experience deploying, securing, and maintaining the operational health of HealthShare Unified Care Record environments.

Recommended Preparation

Exam Parameters

Number of questions: 42
Exam time limit: 2 hours
Passing Score: 71%
Language Offered: English
Exam Format: Multiple choice and multiple response

Exam Topics and Content

The exam contains questions that cover the areas for the stated role as shown in the KSA (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities) chart immediately below.

KSA Group

KSA

Target Item

T1

Installs Unified Care Record

T1.1

Makes pre-installation decisions based on technical architecture document

  1. Interprets solution architecture document

T1.2

Installs software and Unified Care Record components

  1. Installs software and license key to target environments
  2. Configures Web Gateway
  3. Configures web servers on single instances and on federated systems
  4. Configures mirroring
  5. Installs Unified Care Record components with wizards
  6. Deploys Unified Care Record components with installer scripts (e.g., InstallDemo())
  7. Activates Unified Care Record components
  8. Configures FHIR endpoints

T1.3

Performs post-installation configuration

  1. Configures production components
  2. Configures external communication
  3. Selects pool sizes for production components
  4. Starts and stops Unified Care Record
  5. Configures Master Person Index (MPI) connectivity
  6. Validates successful deployment

T1.4

Upgrades existing installation

  1. Reviews release notes for the new version (especially the Breaking Changes section)
  2. Prepares Edge Gateways for upgrade
  3. Evaluates the impact of class modifications during an upgrade and identifies unsupported changes to system-supplied code
  4. Preserves custom code and layouts
  5. Upgrades instances in federated HealthShare environments
  6. Confirms upgrade in log files
  7. Reactivates namespaces

T2

Secures and Administers Unified Care Record

T2.1

Secures Unified Care Record

  1. Configures SSL/TLS
  2. Loads and configures certificate files (e.g., iris.cer) for encrypted communication
  3. Identifies the components and flow of federated SSO in a HealthShare federation
  4. Configures HealthShare federated SSO
  5. Validates and troubleshoots federated SSO configurations
  6. Identifies available user authentication options
  7. Creates internal and external security domains
  8. Configures OAuth and SAML authentication for Single Sign-On (SSO)
  9. Configures mTLS for Web Gateway authentication

T2.2

Handles user management

  1. Provisions and manages users in default HealthShare security domains
  2. Provisions and manages users in custom security domains (e.g., LDAP)
  3. Assigns appropriate roles to users
  4. Manages user's roles and reviews their access and permissions
  5. Manages facility assignments and delivery policies (push notifications, push subscriptions, configures message repository, etc.)

T3

Maintains Operational Health of Unified Care Record

T3.1

Monitors and troubleshoots Unified Care Record components

  1. Configures system alerts
  2. Identifies and diagnoses common production issues (e.g., component down/off, connection failures, throughput issues)
  3. Troubleshoots production performance issues (e.g., OpenMetrics APIs, ^SystemPerformance reports)
  4. Enables and configures audit logging features (ATNA, Audit Edge, etc.)
  5. Reviews and interprets logs (e.g., InterSystems IRIS audit log, HS.Util.Installer log)
  6. Manages data volume and system integrity (e.g., ^%GSIZE, journal profiles, integrity checks)