Previously 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!
The Mirth Project has just released version 1.0 of Mirth and gee it looks good. They have made it extremely versatile and extensible (it now even supports Python scripts), and it does encrypted messaging (not sure how smoothly). We'll now spend a bit of time taking a serious look at Mirth - will report our findings here. Those in the GP informatics system integration/support business should probably take a close look too. I really like their idea of embedding it into small devices etc. See http://mirth.sourceforge.net/ Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
