Understanding the Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare

A Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare provides a stable, secure, and scalable healthcare messaging platform. Your Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare includes commercial support and a management control panel to run Mirth® Connect for your organization's health information technology messaging.

Mirth® Connect is a standards-compliant cross-platform interface engine designed to facilitate bi-directional exchange of HL7 messages between systems and applications across various transport methods. Leveraging an enterprise service bus framework and a channel-based architecture, Mirth® Connect enables message filtering, transformation, and routing according to user-defined rules. Its web-based interface and intuitive channel creation wizard simplify the process of building HL7 interfaces by seamlessly connecting applications with Mirth® Connect engine components.

To integrate your existing services with HL7 systems, you must implement an adapter layer to transform messages between your domain and the HL7 environment. Mirth® Connect provides the framework for connecting disparate systems with protocol adapters and message transformation tools.

Mirth® Connect uses a channel-based architecture to connect your systems with other HL7 systems. Channels consist of inbound and outbound endpoints, filters, and transformers. Multiple filters and a chain of transformers can be associated with a channel. The Mirth® Connect interface allows for the reuse of filters and transformers on multiple channels.