WebReach, Inc. Unveils Mirth 1.6 – NCPDP Support Extends Open Source Interface Engine
Combination of National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP), HL7, and X12 messaging in open source package enables low-cost, common infrastructure for enterprise pharmacy systems.
IRVINE, Calif., August 16, 2006—WebReach, Inc., a leading healthcare IT consultancy and creator of open source Health IT solutions, today announced the open source release of Mirth 1.6 which includes support for NCPDP transactions. The standards-based Mirth software is designed to dramatically reduce the time and cost required to achieve health information system interoperability and data exchange, and to speed secure information sharing across communities of healthcare professionals. Mirth 1.6 also includes new enterprise features such as support for high-volume transaction processing and a plug-in architecture to simplify the inclusion and distribution of Mirth extensions.
“The goal of the Mirth Project is to provide Health IT (HIT) infrastructure tools to support the smooth and secure flow of public open standards-based clinical and administrative information,” said Jon Teichrow, President of WebReach, Inc., Mirth’s main corporate sponsor. “The Mirth Project resonates with Health Information Exchanges (HIE), EHR and PHR vendors, laboratories, hospitals, and HIT system integrators. NCPDP transaction support is a natural extension for Mirth to fast-track the pharmacy industry with low-cost interoperability solutions.”
“Mirth is an open source, standards-based Health IT messaging system that supports NCPDP, X12N, EDI, and HL7 transactions and, as a result, aligns well with the messaging infrastructure advocated by the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs,” said Lee Ann Stember, President of the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs Organization. “Being an OSS HIT interface engine solution, Mirth lowers cost barriers, fosters the NCPDP community, and could facilitate common infrastructures for pharmacy claims, Medication Therapy Management (MTM), and automated Prior Authorization (PA) systems, to name a few.”
“WebReach is tracking the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) and our short term roadmap will focus on the DICOM, IHE and the Continuity of Care Document (CCD) standards,” added Teichrow. “Mirth does the heavy lifting to make it easy for application developers to incorporate support for standards in their applications and provides an enterprise alternative to costly proprietary and in-house systems.”
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WebReach will be hosting a Mirth webinar demonstrating the latest Mirth features and Mirth-based appliances on September 4th, 2007 at 10 AM Pacific Time. To register for this webinar click here.
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About Mirth
Mirth is rapidly becoming the interface engine of choice for health information system data exchange. Mirth delivers robust HL7, XML, X12, and NCPDP interface capabilities in an open source package, providing an alternative to costly proprietary and in-house systems. Mirth is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL 1.1) and is free to download and use for development and production deployments. The license also allows companies to embed and distribute Mirth free of charge. Mirth’s zero-cost license ensures cost-effective deployment across as many systems and CPUs as business needs require, with no hidden costs. For more information about Mirth, please visit http://webreachinc.com and http://www.mirthproject.org.
About WebReach, Inc.
Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Irvine, CA, WebReach serves some of the nations largest and most respected healthcare organizations. WebReach delivers information technology consulting, hosts high availability secure applications, and designs user-driven health information solutions. WebReach software is used daily by thousands of health professionals across the U.S. to streamline care management processes, and to securely exchange health information. The Mirth Project is the first in a series of WebReach 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 http://webreachinc.com.
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