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"The goal of the Mirth Project is to provide Health IT (HIT)infrastructure tools to support the smooth and secure flow of public openstandards-based clinical and administrative information," said Jon Teichrow,President of WebReach, Inc., Mirth's main corporate sponsor. "The MirthProject resonates with Health Information Exchanges (HIE), EHR and PHRvendors, laboratories, hospitals, and HIT system integrators. NCPDPtransaction support is a natural extension for Mirth to fast-track thepharmacy industry with low-cost interoperability solutions."
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"Mirth is an open source, standards-based Health IT messaging system thatsupports NCPDP, X12N, EDI, and HL7 transactions and, as a result, aligns wellwith the messaging infrastructure advocated by the National Council forPrescription Drug Programs," said Lee Ann Stember, President of the NationalCouncil for Prescription Drug Programs Organization. "Being an OSS HITinterface engine solution, Mirth lowers cost barriers, fosters the NCPDPcommunity, 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 theContinuity of Care Document (CCD) standards," added Teichrow. "Mirth does theheavy lifting to make it easy for application developers to incorporatesupport for standards in their applications and provides an enterprisealternative to costly proprietary and in-house systems."
Webinar
WebReach will be hosting a Mirth webinar demonstrating the latest Mirthfeatures and Mirth-based appliances on September 4th, 2007 at 10 AM PacificTime. To register for this webinar, please visit:https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/734450238
Professional Services
WebReach, Inc. provides a full range of professional support, consulting,and integration engineering services for Mirth, delivered by the experts thatcreated Mirth.
About Mirth
Mirth is rapidly becoming the interface engine of choice for healthinformation system data exchange. Mirth delivers robust HL7, XML, X12, andNCPDP interface capabilities in an open source package, providing analternative to costly proprietary and in-house systems. Mirth is licensedunder the Mozilla Public License (MPL 1.1) and is free to download and use fordevelopment and production deployments. The license also allows companies toembed and distribute Mirth free of charge. Mirth's zero-cost license ensurescost-effective deployment across as many systems and CPUs as business needsrequire, with no hidden costs. For more information about Mirth, please visithttp://webreachinc.com and http://www.mirthproject.org.
About WebReach, Inc.
Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Irvine, CA, WebReach serves some ofthe nations largest and most respected healthcare organizations. WebReachdelivers information technology consulting, hosts high availability secureapplications, and designs user-driven health information solutions. WebReachsoftware is used daily by thousands of health professionals across the U.S. tostreamline care management proce
