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An Open Source Cross-Platform HL7 Interface Engine

I recently came across Mirth, a Open Source Cross-Platform HL7 Interface Engine, and I thought might interest to many of you. The goal of Mirth is described as

The goal of the Mirth Project is to develop Mirth, an open source cross-platform HL7 interface engine that enables bi-directional sending of HL7 messages between systems and applications over multiple transports.

By utilizing an enterprise service bus framework and a channel-based architecture, Mirth allows messages to be filtered, transformed, and routed based on user-defined rules.

Creating HL7 interfaces for existing systems becomes easy using the web-based interface and channel creation wizard which associates applications with Mirth engine components.

Mirth is still in alpha, but it has the potential for some nice capabilities. The beta release is expected in early June. This is definitely something to keep an eye on and offer help if you have the time.