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Transform Your Practice’s Interoperability Strategy with Mirth Connect

Laura Miller
Laura MillerCEO
Transform Your Practice’s Interoperability Strategy with Mirth Connect

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Transform your practice’s data exchange capabilities with Mirth Connect, NextGen Healthcare’s industry-leading integration engine. This interoperability platform enables real-time data sharing across dissimilar systems. Mirth and NextGen have built quite a reputation, powering one-third of all public Health Information Exchanges, and NextGen now serves healthcare practices in over 40 countries. 

As a CIO, you can rely on Mirth Connect to connect and process data seamlessly to enhance operational efficiency.

How Mirth and NextGen Can Be Useful to Practices

It is increasingly becoming more difficult to keep up with the ever-changing rules and regulations. Thankfully, Mirth Connect ensures your practice stays compliant while advancing connected, patient-focused care. You can rely on Mirth to optimize your practice in the following ways:

  • Enable Patient Access API: Power Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and mobile accessibility to allow patients to engage with their health data.

  • Enhance Enterprise-grade API: Effortlessly read and write data across EHR and practice management systems. Grants access to over 800 integration routes.

  • Provide SMART on FHIR support: Facilitates enhanced functionality by integrating clinical apps directly into your workflows.

  • Automate data query and retrieval: Effortlessly access patient data from external EHRs.

  • Encourage clinical document exchange: Enables importing and exporting 340 million clinical documents annually.

Additionally, Mirth Connect eliminates the challenges of siloed data, which can hinder patient outcomes. As such, its automated interoperability infrastructure aligns with the industry’s push toward patient-centered data exchange. This enables practices to deliver personalized health solutions easily.

Mirth Connect integration engine can handle the demands of your practice’s data exchanges. Thousands of active servers worldwide process numerous healthcare transactions each day, relying on Mirth and NextGen’s proven reliability to deliver.

Benefits of Mirth Connect

Facilities’ interoperability integrations have never been smoother, thanks to Mirth Connect. Here is the full suite of benefits it can offer you as a CIO:

  • Cross-platform compatibility: Seamlessly connect to diverse systems and technologies, as Mirth Connect eliminates barriers between software. It facilitates unhindered data flow across your entire practice network.

  • User-friendly message mapping: Integrating intuitive tools suited to all skill levels simplifies complex data transformations. You can easily create, test, and deploy channel mappings. This ensures consistent and unified data communication.

  • Comprehensive data transformation tools: Utilize a powerful suite of tools, like protocol conversions, to tackle the unique challenges of healthcare data exchange. Using Mirth Connect ensures data accuracy and accessibility.

  • High scalability: Empowers you to handle high-volume data exchange. It does not matter how many systems you connect. Mirth will reliably deliver high-throughput performance to meet your practice’s needs.

  • Expert support: Mirth Connect’s world-class support provides peace of mind, ensuring your systems are operational most of the time. NextGen’s team of connectivity experts will keep things running at all times to reduce operational disruptions.

  • Tailored training: Access hands-on training programs to equip your team with in-depth knowledge. These courses cover the basics and technical aspects to help you maximize the platform’s potential.

As is the case with other NextGen products, you can rely on Mirth Connect to empower your practice using data for better outcomes.

Accomplish More With Integration-as-a-Service

If you value full control over your infrastructure, Mirth Connect empowers you to deploy and manage it on-site. Yet, this approach typically requires ongoing monitoring of workflows, which can be tedious. 

Thankfully, Mirth Fully Managed eliminates these operational challenges. Mirth Fully Managed contains Mirth Connect’s complete feature set plus premium extensions.

Mirth Fully Managed offers additional conveniences, such as:

  • Focus on your priorities: Offload the headache of integration management. The on-demand interoperability services handle everything from planning to implementation support. This should eliminate the burden of daily IT maintenance and buy you enough time to concentrate on driving practice growth.

  • Data integration help: Rely on NextGen’s team of experts to handle all aspects of interface planning, design, and coordination. They provide end-to-end solutions to keep your systems connected. That means taking care of deployment and go-live support, to ongoing maintenance and cloud-hosting.

  • Round-the-clock support: A dedicated support team provides 24/7/365 monitoring of your interfaces. The experts proactively address processing errors to ensure swift resolutions and uninterrupted operations.

Connecting with Mirth Fully Managed lets you unlock Mirth Connect faster and cheaper, without the hassle of doing it yourself.

How TempDev Can Help Optimize Your Mirth Connect System

Implementing Mirth Connect may come with its own set of challenges, but they don’t have to be crippling. As the official premier NextGen consulting partner, here’s how TempDev can support your practice:

  • Data transformation: Before transitioning to Mirth Connect, we deploy tools to test and validate your data. This should ensure reliable data exchange across your systems.

  • API integration for connectivity: Struggling to connect data from unlike devices or systems? Our skilled developers at TempDev can ensure glitch-free interoperability by bridging these gaps through API integration, enabling seamless data flow between disparate platforms.

  • Streamlined implementation and training: Simplify your Mirth Connect adoption with our comprehensive support. Our experienced consultants provide go-live assistance and customized training to ensure your team maximizes the platform's potential.

  • Optimized workflow management: We assess your current processes and tailor Mirth Connect to align with your staff’s needs. TempDev helps integrate productivity tools that enhance usability for staff members of all skill levels.

  • Performance enhancement: If your NextGen EHR experiences issues such as slow response times, we can help. We can optimize performance by, for instance, embedding clinical apps and automating data queries and retrievals.

TempDev’s experienced consultants can help you optimize Mirth and NextGen software to align with your practice’s unique workflows. Contact us today to discover how Mirth Connect can streamline your practice.

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