Irvine, CA and Oostkamp, Belgium, November 2, 2009 – Mirth Corporation, the leader in commercial open source healthcare information technology and Amaron today announced that the companies have finalized a European reseller and support agreement that allows Amaron to resell Mirth interoperability solutions and to provide certified consulting and systems integration services for Mirth’s market-leading commercial open source health information technology.
The agreement grew out of multiple joint customer opportunities driven by strong demand for Mirth’s commercial open source interoperability suite combined with Amaron’s ability to deliver enterprise-ready solutions that take advantage of open source as well as closed source software. Under the terms of the agreement, Amaron will serve as Mirth’s exclusive reseller throughout Europe other than the United Kingdom. Mirth and Amaron will also partner to deliver support and system integration services.
Mirth will benefit from Amaron’s vast and long-standing experience in the European Healthcare environment. Amaron was founded by three healthcare integration veterans Tom De Caluwé, Nico Vannieuwenhuyze and Maurice Van Kerkhoven. Together they have built decades of experience in connectivity of Radiology Information Systems, EPR and PACS systems. The Amaron founders began initially with a leading European RIS vendor (QUADRAT NV) and then later, being acquired by Agfa Healthcare, moved to advance the integration capabilities of this global healthcare powerhouse.
“Through numerous production solutions, Mirth has demonstrated its ability to scale to large data and user volumes, and address sophisticated integration challenges at the enterprise level,” said Maurice Van Kerkhoven, CEO of Amaron. “With this alliance, we’re addressing the increasing demand for these kinds of solutions and Amaron is excited to be able to offer Mirth entire interoperability product portfolio to our current and prospective clients.”
“Amaron provides deep experience in delivering enterprise healthcare solutions,” said Jon Teichrow, President of Mirth Corporation. “This relationship will provide a more scalable way for both companies to address the demand for Mirth solutions throughout Europe.”
Since its launch as the Mirth Project in 2006, Mirth Connect has become the most widely downloaded open source software for healthcare data integration, with over 70,000 worldwide downloads and a user community numbering over 7,000 professionals. Mirth Connect supports all major healthcare data interchange standards, including HL7, CCD, X12, DICOM, NCPDP, and XML.
In addition to Mirth Connect, the Mirth MUx solution includes Mirth hosted appliances pre-loaded with software and interfaces, implementation services, commercial support, 24/7 emergency response, and DURSA consulting for getting needed the data use agreement in place to support exchange of Protected Health Information.
About Mirth Corporation
Mirth is a global leader in commercial open source products and services powering healthcare interoperability. It also delivers information technology consulting, hosts high availability secure applications. Mirth solutions are used daily by thousands of health professionals and institutions worldwide to streamline care management processes and to securely exchange health information. The Mirth Project represents the first in a series of Mirth initiatives aimed at transforming health information technology by making high-value information technology utilities available to the healthcare community on an open source basis. For more information visit www.mirthcorp.com
About Amaron
Amaron is a Belgian company specialized in Healthcare interoperability solutions, services and consulting in Europe. It delivers assistance to Healthcare institutions connecting the healthcare community to the various sources of medical, administrative and clinical information. In addition it aims at bringing “open source” products combined with experience and customization support to fill in the gaps of today’s healthcare IT offering. For more information visit www.amaron.be
