Momentum grows for open source interface engine as it achieves 10,000 downloads
Irvine, Calif., March 22, 2007—WebReach, Inc., a leading healthcare IT consultancy and creator of open source Health IT solutions, today announced the open source release of Mirth 1.4. Mirth is the fastest-growing healthcare messaging platform and the latest release offers powerful new functionality for HL7 V3 messaging, X12 documents, and intelligent alerting. Mirth delivers robust HIT middleware capabilities in a lightweight open source package, providing an alternative to costly proprietary and in-house systems.
Mirth is specifically designed to connect communities of healthcare professionals for exchanging patient-specific information, such as laboratory results and medical records. Mirth employs widely accepted, standards-based healthcare messaging protocols and facilitates the rapid, secure, and flexible deployment of connectivity solutions. Mirth also speeds the development of interfaces for secure exchange of data across formats – for example, from HL7 to XML or vice versa – reducing barriers to the formation of health information exchanges involving diverse information systems, and advancing initiatives aimed at improving patient safety, continuity of care, and biosurveillance.
Mirth 1.4 marks the fourth major release for the software in one year. Since that time, Mirth has been downloaded over 10,000 times and is gaining traction and momentum as the demand for cost-effective HIT messaging solutions increases globally. Mirth is already in numerous production laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, hospital and other HIT systems.
“Mirth 1.4 provides a deep healthcare messaging feature set without the complexity or cost of other systems,” said Gerald Bortis, Mirth’s Lead Developer. “In this release we focused on building out support for messaging standards and a flexible monitoring and alerting subsystem. In 2007, we will add a number of exciting new capabilities to the Mirth platform.”
Mirth 1.4 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 www.mirthproject.org.
WebReach, Inc. provides a full range of professional support, consulting, and integration engineering services for Mirth, delivered by the experts that created Mirth. For more information visit Mirth.
Mirth is rapidly becoming the HL7 interface engine of choice for health information system data exchange. Mirth delivers robust HL7 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 the Mirth Project website.
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 www.webreachinc.com.