Mirth Project - Open Source HL7 Interface Engine

[techguy]

I really like the idea of an open source project that supports HL7 messaging. I just can’t get my head around what exactly this means and how they are making the wretched HL7 messaging any easier.

It looks like this could be very useful for legacy applications that need to support HL7 messaging.

Mirth Project Website

[proxsys]

How does Mirth support legacy applications?

Many hospitals have terminal emulator based applications that are hl7 illiterate. They have other applications based on Java, Win32 apps and also UNIX/Linux applications.

Let us consider that you don't have access to the database.

[caultonpos]

Originally Posted by techguy

I just can’t get my head around what exactly this means and how they are making the wretched HL7 messaging any easier.

Mirth Project Website

When you write HL7 interfaces there is a lot of mapping and a lot of customization needed to bring two system together. Mirth is an enterprise solution which uses both drag and drop mapping and a standard language Javascript. I rate it higher than many of the most used commercial solutions.

It is open source and hence I can use it without licensing costs to integrate the open source PatientOS EMR with other systems.

For example I recently helped a student map data values from sensor to be picked up by Mirth, mapped to the PatientOS xml structure, queued, processed and stored for viewing on the flowsheet and in the Patient Portal.

Mirth rocks.

Greg

http://www.patientos.org