1. Building the Redwood MedNet HIE with Mirth Open Source Tools
Gerald Bortis
Lead Software Engineer
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
mirthcorp.com

2. Mirth Corporation Founded in 1993 as WebReach, Inc.
Incubated the Mirth Project to transform healthcare interoperability through open source
Became Mirth Corporation following the success of the Mirth suite of products
Provide commercial support and engineering
Founded in 1993 doing software consulting, around 5 years ago we had the need for an integration engine and being geeks we wanted something that we could just download and play with, but we couldn’t find anything, so we started the Mirth Project.
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3. Mirth Connect
Java-based integration engine supporting numerous standards (HL7, X12, DICOM, etc.) and protocols (LLP, HTTP, etc.)
Features development environment for creating and monitoring interfaces
Thousands of users, deployed in hundreds of organizations around the world
New connectors available for CONNECT
First of the Mirth product family, Java-based integration engine that filters/translates/routes messages
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4. Mirth Connect
Several screenshots showing the message browser (with a DICOM message) and the message editor.
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5. Mirth Results
Leverages message feeds from Mirth Connect to collect, organize, and aggregate clinical data from many sources
Web-based portal for viewing patient demographics and clinical observations such as laboratory results
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6. Mirth Results
This screen show the lab results for the patient with the out of range results highlighted.
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7. Mirth Match
Master patient index (MPI) used to correlate patients and providers from disparate sources
Based on a matching module framework to leverage existing matching algorithms
Exposes web service API and integrates with CONNECT
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8. Mirth Match Work queue shows entity matches and their status.
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9. Solving Problems
At a smaller scale, we help all of the systems within an organization get connected and expose their services to the outside. At the large scale, we help people connect to HIEs and the NHIN.
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10. Mirth MUx and Appliances
Mirth MUx (Meaningful Use Exchange) integrates the Mirth application suite with CONNECT on a physical or virtual appliance to fast track HIE implementations
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11. www.mirthcorp.com www.redwoodmednet.org
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