FAQ

Mirth Exchange is an initiative that makes high-value, standards-based interoperability solutions available to the healthcare community on an open source basis. It is the industry’s first repository of health information exchange interfaces and associated assets — documentation, sample messages, specifications, test harnesses, forums, issue tracking, and utilities — made available on a free and open source basis for community-driven development, testing, sharing, and refinement.

Simple. Just create a Mirth Community account, browse for the channel you’re interested in on Mirth Exchange, and then download it.

Next, import the downloaded channel into Mirth Connect and integrate your systems. We’ve got you covered if you need training or support.

Mirth believes sustainability and community-driven interoperability is the key to your long-term success of delivering Meaningful Use to your community. See our call to action for more information about why you should contribute to Mirth Exchange.

Mirth believes EHR vendors should be focused on core functionality and standards-based integration capabilities in order to fast-track implementation and assist customers in achieving anticipated meaningful use criteria related to interoperability. See our call to action for more information about why your organization should contribute to Mirth Exchange.

Providing friction-free interoperability for your platform will make it easier to sell and faster for your customers to implement. Create and upload a documented Mirth Channel for your system to Mirth Exchange and you’ll make it easy for other systems to integrate with your platform. You’ll have a leg up on your competition if connectivity to your system is available on Mirth Exchange.

Yes. As long as you have a valid Mirth Channel Support Agreement with Mirth we will support your Mirth deployment and channels on a per-incident basis.

Our contributors choose the open source license governing the channel code.

Any license that is OSI certified.

Simple. Just select “Contribute Channel” from the top of the Mirth Exchange Repository. You’ll be asked to complete a contributor agreement. You can then pass along your channel code to the Mirth Exchange team for integration into the Mirth Exchange site.

The Mirth team will review all code submitted and place it on Mirth Exchange. This process will ensure that the code is properly licensed and is void of proprietary information. In the future we plan to further automate the code submission process to make it even easier for you.

The Mirth Exchange site associates your Mirth Community account with the channel as part of accepting and acknowledging the terms of the open source license associated with the Mirth Channel you are viewing or downloading.

Mirth Exchange is currently configured to support only Mirth Channels. Mirth Connect code, including plug-ins, should be contributed to the to the Mirth Connect project directly via the Mirth Connect Community site.

Absolutely. Please get in touch with us and we’ll add your organization to our Mirth Exchange partner list. You will receive information about channels requested by the community and be offered opportunities to develop them as the need arises.

Mirth Exchange was initially created and is maintained by generous contributions from Mirth Corporation and HealthBridge. We still have a lot of work that we’d like to do on the Mirth Exchange site, so please get in touch if you’d like to fund or contribute to the continued progress of Mirth Exchange.

The founding organizations for Mirth Exchange are HealthBridge, Alliance Medical Center, Redwood MedNet, MedSphere, and the Regenstrief Institute. Please get in touch if with us if your organization would like to coordinate on Mirth Channel contributions to Mirth Exchange. You can reach us via our contact page.

Mirth Corporation, along with our early partners mentioned above, have made initial contributions to seed the exchange. We will continue to add new interfaces on Mirth Exchange moving forward, and encourage others to do the same.

We have made a call to action to the Mirth Community to contribute their channels to Mirth Exchange. We hope the community that has greatly benefited from a top-notch interface engine gives back and contributes to the exchange.

We made a similar call to action to states, State Designated Entities (SDEs), HIEs, and EHR vendors to contribute to the exchange.

Mirth welcomes your feedback. We view Mirth Exchange as part of our overall community and both Mirth Exchange and the Mirth community will benefit from your feedback for improvements, changes, bugs, and so on. You can send feedback directly to the Mirth Exchange team by selecting the “Feedback” item near the top of the Mirth Exchange Repository.