Washington DC, June 28, 2009 – Mirth Corporation, a leader in commercial open source healthcare information technology, is one of a select number of organizations invited to present at the June 29-30 CONNECT Seminar ’09 in Washington, DC. Organized by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), CONNECT Seminar ’09 showcases open source solutions built by federal agencies to enable secure, standards-based exchange of patient information between organizations and the National Health Information Network (NHIN). NHIN, a core element the President’s health IT agenda, will enable a secure, nationwide, interoperable health information infrastructure to make health information available and accessible to providers and consumers of healthcare across communities, and across the nation.
At CONNECT Seminary ‘09 Mirth’s chief architect Gary Teichrow will highlight the use of its leading open source healthcare integration engine, called Mirth Connect™, in combination with the government’s newly release NHIN Gateway, to:
• Create a bridge between two health information exchanges – Long Beach Network for Health and ER Connect Orange County – in less than a month to enable appropriate sharing of patient records despite the fact that the organizations use different software systems.
• Support members of the California eHealth Collaborative’s statewide NHIN demonstration, including Redwood MedNet and Long Beach Network for Health, in successfully demonstrating statewide connectivity between local and regional health information networks, for secure sharing of patient records.
• Enable health information exchange infrastructure leader HealthBridge to Redwood MedNet, expanding on the California eHealth Collaborative’s statewide NHIN demonstration to include an interstate partner.
• Utilize the newly released, security-hardened Mirth Gateway™ Appliance, with embedded CONNECT software, to speed connectivity to the NHIN – simplifying initial setup and ongoing administration.
“Mirth technologies have turbocharged our efforts to enable the safe and secure exchange of patient information within our healthcare community and statewide,” said Will Ross, CIO of Redwood MedNet. “Its fully supported open source model makes it affordable for our organization and stakeholders. With the introduction of the Mirth Gateway appliance, NHIN connectivity just became very straightforward.”
In 2006, WebReach (now Mirth Corporation) founded the open source Mirth Project, incubated its code base, and has served as its corporate sponsor and primary source of professional support and related consulting services since the project’s inception. Since that time, Mirth Connect™ 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. Mirth healthcare integration software and appliances are in production use within leading HIEs and hospital systems across the U.S. and UK.
Mirth Connect supports all major healthcare data interchange standards, including HL7, X12, DICOM, NCPDP, and even XML. As standards-based, open source software, Mirth eliminates vendor lock-in. With full certification and backing, it offers healthcare organizations of all sizes and types the benefits of commercial-grade support.
“By enabling information sharing across healthcare communities, Mirth can help its client organizations – regardless of whether they are individual health systems or statewide health information exchanges – to improve quality, safety and convenience of care for providers and consumers alike,” said Jon Teichrow, president of Mirth Corporation. “By putting needed information in the hands of clinicians where and when it’s needed, we can also reduce healthcare cost and waste, for example from duplicate medical tests resulting from inaccessibility of patient records.”
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.
