Introduction to Mirth® Connect

Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare User Guide

The NextGen® Connected Health Solutions Mission

With NextGen Connected Health, NextGen Healthcare's goal is to provide the healthcare community with a secure, efficient, cost-effective means of sharing health information. NextGen® Connected Health Solutions help many of the nation's largest, most respected healthcare entities streamline their care-management processes to satisfy the demands of a regulated, competitive healthcare industry. With NextGen® Connected Health Solutions, NextGen Healthcare aims to provide the healthcare community with a secure, efficient, cost-effective means of sharing health information. The natural outcome is a family of applications—which includes Mirth® Connect—flexible enough to manage patient information, from small practices to large HIEs, so our clients and users can work confidently and effectively within the healthcare delivery system. Parent topic: Introduction to Mirth Connect

Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare User Guide

About Mirth® Connect

Mirth® Connect translates message standards into a language your system understands. Like an interpreter who translates foreign languages into a language you understand, Mirth® Connect translates message standards into a language your system understands. Whenever a "foreign" system sends you a message, Mirth® Connect with its integration capabilities expedite the following: Filtering: Mirth® Connect reads message parameters and either passes the message on or stops it on its way to the transformation stage. Transformation: Mirth® Connect converts the incoming message standard to another standard, such as from Health Level Seven (HL7) to XML. Extraction: Mirth® Connect can pull data from and push data to a database. Routing: Mirth® Connect ensures that messages arrive at their assigned destinations. Users manage and develop channels (message pathways) using the interface known as the Administrator interface. Image of the Administrator Dashboard Parent topic: Introduction to Mirth Connec

Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare User Guide

The Healthcare Interoperability Challenge and Solution

Healthcare faces many interoperability challenges that Mirth® Connect can help resolve. Patient data is most often exchanged through computer systems. For example, a doctor's office sends patient records to a hospital, or a clinic sends a prescription request to a pharmacy. Such communication is not foolproof. Data can be delayed or lost, and privacy is not always assured, making transactions less efficient and reliable than they could be. Contributing factors include the following: Protocol conflicts between sites Mismatched versions of record-keeping software Costly software licensing HIPAA privacy and security Incompatible data due to varied software and communication methods Lack of control and flexibility related to software use In the following diagram, you can see Mirth® Connect's flexibility. A lab's data system sends a Health Level Seven (HL7) message to Mirth® Connect through a Minimal Lower Layer Protocol (MLLP). Mirth® Connect inserts patient data into an electronic health

Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare User Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

This section addresses the most common questions users have about Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare. What is Mirth® Connect? Mirth® Connect is a versatile, standards-based healthcare integration engine that speeds bi-directional message routing, filtering, and transformation between disparate health-info systems over various messaging protocols (e.g., HL7, X12, EDI, DICOM, XML). Is Mirth® Connect the same as "Mirth"? Yes. Mirth 1.0 was released in 2006 by WebReach, Inc. Based on the success of the Mirth application, WebReach, Inc. was renamed "Mirth Corporation" in 2009. To avoid confusion between the new company name and its products, the Mirth application was renamed Mirth® Connect. As of early 2016, Mirth Corporation, as a business entity, no longer exists, having been absorbed into the Quality Systems, Inc. family of products in Sept. 2013. QSI has since become NextGen Healthcare, and Mirth® Connect lives on with other former Mirth Corporation products as part of the "Mirth Solu

Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Deployment Guide, 4.1

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. Note: You should install the Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare behind a firewall. For more information about Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare and firewalls, see Deployment Considerations. 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

Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare Command Center User Guide

About Command Center

With the Command Center plug-in, an interface is available, that allows you to manage your Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare environment with Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare Command Center. You can register, unregister, and sync your Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare environment with the Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare Command Center using this interface. The Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare Command Center does the following: Provides deep integration for web-based command and control of your Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare environments. Supports detailed analytics and monitoring of your Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare environments. Provides more capabilities and services with Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare environments that are using Mirth Platform extensibility, through additional Command Center sub-extensions. Note: Command Center is currently not available in the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK).

Introduction to Mirth® Connect

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The NextGen® Connected Health Solutions Mission

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Frequently Asked Questions

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The Healthcare Interoperability Challenge and Solution

Frequently Asked Questions

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