Unofficial Mirth Connect 3.4 Developer´s Guide

As Mirth Corporation (now is a subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc.) says on their web-site, “Mirth Connect is the Swiss Army knife of healthcare integration engines, specifically designed for HL7 message integration. It provides the necessary tools for developing, testing, deploying, and monitoring interfaces. And because it’s open source, you get all of the advantages of a large community of users with commercial quality support.” In addition, “The 2014 HL7 Interface Technology Survey Results” show that Mirth Connect is one of the fastest growing healthcare messaging platforms due to its open source paradigm, and robust functionality for HL7 messaging and X12 documents. Mirth Connect also speeds up the development of interfaces for data exchange across different formats and diverse healthcare systems environment. This book describes version 3.x of Mirth Connect to the point that reader are confident enough to start building their own healthcare data exchange interfaces and transforming various versions of HL7 messages. As you read this book, you will be implementing a fictitious Eligibility Query Service. Each connection point (channel) is explained in a separate chapter, which in turn provides step-by-step instructions on how to create and code data transformation rules. This book is written using Mirth Connect 3.4.0.8000 version of the product. Consequently, other releases may include new features, or features used in this book may change or disappear. You may also notice some differences between screen shots provided in the book and those you see when using Mirth Connect.