Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare Setup Considerations

It is highly recommended that both the Advance Clustering and Advance Alerting plugins be installed on the Mirth® Connect instances. The Advance Clustering plugin will allow the user to view message statistics between the nodes and also view the health of the nodes. Together with the Advance Alerting plugin, an alert can be configured so that if any of the nodes becomes unavailable, the proper resources can be alerted. It is also recommended that Mirth® Connect version 3.6+ be installed. This is because the proper JDBC driver required to communicate with the managed Azure SQL database is not natively contained with the older versions. A work-around can be done by installing the latest Microsoft SQL driver with the older version of Mirth® Connect, but this is not recommended.

Benchmark testing of both Mirth® Connect 3.5 and 3.11 was performed to identify if there are any performance issues when comparing the two versions. Messages were sent via TCP in a channel running on a local machine to the receiver channel was deployed on the Azure Mirth® Connect instance.

There was no degradation of performance as the 3.11 version was able to receive and process the messages at or above the rate of version 3.5.