Thanks Tim,
We will certainly review this product and project and see if it can mesh
in with us. Will get onto that as soon as Argus 4.1 is released.
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Ross Davey
CEO
ArgusConnect Pty Ltd
Ph: 03 5335 2220
Mob: 0417 548608
Web: www.argusconnect.com.au
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Tim Churches wrote:
This open source project looks most interesting and promising:
http://www.mirthproject.org - it is an HL7 communications,
transformation and interface engine, able to handle acknowledged sending
and receiving of HL7 messages to and from multiple channels using LLP
(the Hl7 2.x protocol), SMTP, Web services, XML, ODBC and other database
interfaces, transform and filter those messages in user-definable way -
with transformations and filters written in Javascript (a very
reasonable choice for a transformation language). Mirth is all open
source, the main bits available under the Mozilla Public License, is
implemented in Java (oh well, can't win `em all), and is able to be
embedded on small and cheap special-purpose Linux servers.
Seems like there is a lot of overlap with Argus Connect. I suspect that
Argus is more sophisticated with respect to encrypted email transport,
but Mirth may be ahead of Argus with respect to HL7 message
transformation, Web services and interfacing with databases and clinical
information systems. Mirth is not yet at production ready- stage - the
downloadable version is only at version 0.1a, but the online demo
version is labelled version 1.0, so it may be closer to production-ready
than it first appears to be.
I would humbly suggest that Argus Connect Pty Ltd and teh health
Openware Foundation try to embrace the Mirth project and collaborate
with its developers, to their (and our) mutual benefit. Hell's bells,
with a slight adjustment to licensing, the open source version of Argus
Connect could even be merged with the Mirth code. Now that would really
be something!
Tim C
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