| The Mirth Story |
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Mirth’s founders recognized that healthcare could not operate as a true system without widely accessible, easy to deploy, standards-based interface engine. An engine that spoke HL7 and beyond. Proprietary and homegrown systems at the time were expensive, inflexible, created vendor lock-in, and required arcane coding skills not available within many hospital IT organizations. With a vision of advancing healthcare quality, efficiency and safety through data interoperability on a broad scale, the Mirth Project was born.
Since it’s launch in 2006, with corporate sponsorship from Mirth Corporation, the Mirth Connect interface engine has become the most widely downloaded open source software for healthcare data integration, achieving over 60,000 worldwide downloads since its launch. The Mirth contributor and user community now stands at over 6,000 registered users representing global leaders and innovators in healthcare interoperability. The project has expanded it’s focus beyond the interface engine to tackle related challenges such as results delivery and enterprise-wide master patient indexing. If you’re not already part of the community you can learn more or join now. |


Mirth’s founders recognized that healthcare could not operate as a true system without widely accessible, easy to deploy, standards-based interface engine. An engine that spoke HL7 and beyond. Proprietary and homegrown systems at the time were expensive, inflexible, created vendor lock-in, and required arcane coding skills not available within many hospital IT organizations. With a vision of advancing healthcare quality, efficiency and safety through data interoperability on a broad scale, the Mirth Project was born.