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Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare User Guide
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 ConnectThe NextGen® Connected Health Solutions Mission
Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare User Guide
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 healthThe Healthcare Interoperability Challenge and Solution
Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare User Guide
Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare 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). This user guide provides you with an overview of Mirth® Connect and instructions on how to install the software and use it to transfer or share healthcare data with security and ease. 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. About Mirth Connect Mirth® Connect translates message standards into a language your system understands. The Healthcare Interoperability Challenge and Solution Healthcare faces many interoperability challenges that Mirth® Connect can help resolve.Introduction to Mirth® Connect
Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare User Guide
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 SoluFrequently Asked Questions
Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Deployment Guide, 4.1
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 byUnderstanding the Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare
Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare User Guide
Mirth® Connect is an integration engine that can receive data from a variety of sources and take powerful actions on that data, including sending the data out to multiple external systems. As explained in the Introduction to Mirth Connect section, Mirth® Connect is an integration engine that can receive data from a variety of sources and take powerful actions on that data, including sending the data out to multiple external systems. It can also transform data from one format to another, or extract pieces of the data that you can act on or send outbound. The interfaces you configure that perform these jobs are called channels. About Channels and Connectors About Message Data The Message Processing Lifecycle About Data Types About Filters About Transformers