Mirth Connect services cover the design, build, deployment and support of Mirth Connect channels that move clinical and financial data between healthcare systems. The work includes HL7 v2 and FHIR message routing, transformation, validation, EHR and billing integration, upgrades, monitoring and licensing guidance, all handled under HIPAA safeguards.
Taction Software has delivered Mirth Connect work since 2013 as part of 200+ healthcare projects, from single interfaces to multi-platform integration layers. This page covers our commercial Mirth Connect services and pricing at a $50 hourly rate, and complements our main Mirth Connect integration practice.
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Mirth Connect is one of the most widely deployed healthcare interface engines in the United States, and most hospitals, labs and billing companies run at least one instance. Services around it range from building a first channel to operating an integration layer that carries thousands of messages every day. Some teams need help with a single stubborn interface, while others need an outside team to own the entire engine. The six service areas below cover the work organizations request most often, and each can be engaged separately or combined into one ongoing Mirth Connect engagement.
We build Mirth Connect channels that receive, filter, transform and route HL7 v2, FHIR, X12, CDA and custom formats. Each channel includes error handling, logging and documentation, so your team understands exactly what it does and can troubleshoot it confidently after handover.
We implement complete interfaces between two or more systems, including ADT feeds, lab orders and results, scheduling and charge messages. Implementation covers testing against real sample messages and sandbox environments, followed by a controlled cutover with rollback plans in place from the start.
We install and configure Mirth Connect on-premise or in the cloud, including database setup, user roles, SSL certificates, backups and alerting. Configuration follows HIPAA technical safeguards, so the engine is secure and auditable before the first production message ever reaches it.
Older Mirth Connect versions accumulate security risk and compatibility gaps. We plan and execute version upgrades, move instances between servers or cloud providers, and migrate channels from other engines, testing every channel before and after the change so message flow never silently breaks.
We monitor channel health, queue depth, error rates and server resources, then respond when something fails. Our Mirth Connect support services cover incident response, message reprocessing, performance tuning and routine maintenance under defined response times agreed in writing. Monthly reports show channel health trends.
For teams with an existing Mirth Connect environment, we review channel design, performance, security and licensing position. Our Mirth Connect consulting produces a prioritized list of fixes, from quick wins to structural changes that reduce long-term maintenance cost. Each finding includes an estimated effort.
Mirth Connect licensing changed significantly in March 2025, when NextGen Healthcare moved new releases to a commercial licence. Organizations running Mirth Connect now face a real decision: stay on the last open-source version, move to a commercial licence, or migrate to an open-source alternative. Each option has different costs, security implications and support paths, and the right choice depends on how many channels you run and how critical they are. We help teams make that decision on facts rather than urgency. The six considerations below shape most of the licensing decisions we support for clients today.
With version 4.6, NextGen Healthcare moved Mirth Connect to a commercial licence, ending free access to new releases. Existing open-source installations keep working, but they no longer receive new features or security updates from NextGen without a paid commercial licence in place.
Remaining on version 4.5.2 avoids licence cost in the short term. The trade-off is that security fixes stop arriving, so risk grows over time. This option suits stable, low-change environments with a planned exit date and strong network controls around the engine.
A commercial licence restores vendor updates and official support from NextGen. It suits organizations with many critical channels and a preference for a single accountable vendor. We help estimate licence and migration effort so you can compare the true total cost against the alternatives.
Open Integration Engine is an open-source fork of Mirth Connect 4.5.2, so existing channels usually move across with limited changes. Taction is listed as a commercial support vendor on openintegrationengine.org, and we handle migration testing channel by channel before any production cutover takes place.
Some organizations use the licensing change to reconsider their engine entirely. Our healthcare integration engine comparison and Mirth Connect vs Redox comparison explain where each option fits, including managed platforms and self-hosted engines. We give a neutral view, including cases where staying on Mirth Connect is the better choice.
We inventory your channels, message volumes and dependencies, then model the cost and risk of each licensing path over three years. You receive a written recommendation you can take to leadership, whether or not you choose us to carry out the work.
Channels are where Mirth Connect projects succeed or fail. A channel that works with clean test data can still break in production when a sending system uses an optional field differently, sends an unexpected segment or repeats a message. Our channel development approach assumes real-world messages are messy. We build validation, error handling and reprocessing into every channel, document the mappings and test with production-like samples before go-live. The six practices below describe how we build channels that keep working after the project team has moved on, and that your own staff can maintain later.
Every inbound message is checked for required fields, data types and code values before processing. Bad data is rejected or quarantined with a clear reason, so problems surface at the interface rather than later as denied claims, duplicate patients or missing lab results.
Different systems represent the same information differently. We build crosswalks that map codes and field values between source and destination systems per transaction type, so transfers carry the right meaning rather than merely succeeding technically while delivering the wrong clinical or billing values.
Failed messages are captured, logged and made easy to reprocess once the cause is fixed. Our guide to Mirth Connect error handling and reprocessing explains the patterns we use to prevent silent data loss in busy production environments. Nothing is dropped without a record.
When built-in connectors are not enough, we develop custom Mirth Connect plugins, JavaScript libraries and code templates. Our Mirth Connect plugin development work keeps extensions versioned, documented and reusable across channels instead of copied between them. This also makes future upgrades far easier to test.
Mirth Connect can expose and consume FHIR resources alongside HL7 v2 messages. We build FHIR channels that convert between HL7 v2 and FHIR, call external FHIR APIs and serve FHIR endpoints. See our Mirth Connect FHIR services for the full scope of this work.
Every channel ships with documentation covering its purpose, source and destination systems, mappings, filters and error behavior. Our channel development tutorial reflects the same conventions, so your engineers can read and extend our channels without guesswork. Handover also includes a walkthrough session with your team.
Most Mirth Connect work exists to connect an EHR to something else: a lab system, a billing platform, a patient app, a registry or another EHR. Each EHR vendor exposes data differently, through HL7 v2 feeds, FHIR APIs, flat files or proprietary web services, and each has its own testing process and constraints. We plan integrations around those vendor realities from the start rather than discovering them during testing. The six integration types below are the ones we build most often, and many clients need several of them running through the same Mirth Connect instance.
We connect Epic to downstream systems using HL7 v2 interfaces and FHIR APIs, routed through Mirth Connect for transformation and validation. Our Mirth Connect Epic integration work covers ADT, orders, results and scheduling data flows in both directions. Every flow includes validation and logging.
Oracle Health, formerly Cerner, environments often combine HL7 v2 feeds with FHIR APIs. Our Mirth Connect Cerner integration work maps these sources into the formats downstream systems expect, with validation catching vendor-specific variations before they cause errors further down. Testing always uses real sample messages.
Admission, discharge and transfer messages drive patient identity across connected systems. Our HL7 ADT integration services handle registration, updates, merges and transfers, including patient merge events that commonly create duplicate records when they are handled incorrectly. We test merge handling carefully before go-live.
We build bidirectional lab interfaces that send orders and return results, including specimen details, reference ranges and abnormal flags. Our lab integration HL7 services cover reference labs, hospital labs and point-of-care systems feeding results into the EHR. Results are validated before reaching clinicians.
Revenue cycle companies inherit their clients’ systems. We build Mirth Connect layers that receive patient and charge data from many practice management and billing platforms, validate it and apply crosswalks, so new client systems are onboarded through configuration rather than new code.
Not every system speaks HL7. We connect Mirth Connect to REST and SOAP APIs, databases and file-based systems, wrapping them in secure channels. Our Mirth Connect web service work covers authentication, retries, rate limits and response mapping. Every external call is logged for auditing.
An interface engine is infrastructure, and infrastructure needs operating. Many organizations build Mirth Connect channels during a project, then find no one owns them once the project team leaves. Queues back up, certificates expire, disk space runs out and a sending system changes a field without warning. Our support model gives the engine a named owner, clear response times and proactive monitoring, so problems are caught before clinicians or billing staff notice them. The six support activities below make up a typical ongoing Mirth Connect support agreement with our team.
We track channel status, queue depth, error counts, message throughput and server health, with alerts routed to our on-call engineers. Most issues are detected and resolved before downstream users notice missing data, delayed results or failed billing transactions in their daily work.
When an interface fails, we diagnose the cause, restore message flow and reprocess affected messages. Response times are agreed in the support contract, and every incident receives a written summary covering root cause, impact and the change made to prevent recurrence.
High-volume channels slow down as message counts grow. We tune channel design, database settings, message storage, pruning and server resources so throughput stays stable, and we identify channels that should be split, combined or redesigned before they become a bottleneck.
We apply operating system and Java updates, manage SSL certificates before expiry and review user access regularly. For instances that cannot receive vendor updates, we add compensating network and access controls and document the residual risk for your compliance team.
When a sending system changes its messages or a new destination is added, we update channels under a controlled change process. Changes are tested against sample messages first, deployed during agreed windows and documented, so production interfaces are never edited without review.
We configure automated backups of channel configurations, code templates and message databases, then test restoration regularly. A documented recovery plan means a failed server becomes a short, planned outage rather than days of rebuilding interfaces from memory under pressure. Every recovery test is documented.
Our Mirth Connect work is billed at a blended rate of $50 per hour, covering integration engineers, QA and project management. Cost depends mainly on the number of channels, the variation between connected systems, message volume and whether licensing or migration work is involved. The ranges below reflect typical effort and are planning figures, not quotes. A short assessment of your environment produces an exact estimate. For a detailed breakdown of implementation effort, see our Mirth Connect implementation cost guide, which covers licensing and infrastructure costs. Every estimate lists its assumptions clearly.
A standard HL7 channel with validation, one transformation and error handling typically takes 20 to 60 hours. Complex channels with multiple destinations, crosswalks or FHIR conversion take longer, so we estimate each one individually once sample messages are available. A fixed quote follows that review.
A complete interface project, such as an EHR to lab integration with testing and cutover, typically takes 160 to 800 hours. Scope depends on message types, the number of systems involved and vendor testing requirements on both sides of the connection.
A licensing or migration assessment inventories your channels, dependencies and message volumes, then compares each licensing path. It typically takes 40 to 120 hours and produces a written recommendation with effort estimates for whichever path you decide to take. The fee is fixed before work starts.
A dedicated Mirth Connect engineer works about 160 hours per month, costing $8,000 at our rate. This model suits organizations with continuous interface work, many active channels or an ongoing migration program that needs a consistent owner every week. Additional engineers can join quickly.
Support retainers typically cover 20 to 80 hours per month for monitoring, incident response, patching and small changes. The right size depends on channel count, message volume and response time requirements, which we agree before the retainer starts. Retainer size can change each quarter.
Cost rises with inconsistent source systems, poor sample data, high message volumes and strict vendor testing processes. It falls when message specifications are available early, sample data is realistic and one team owns decisions. Licence fees and cloud infrastructure are separate from engineering cost.
Choosing a Mirth Connect partner comes down to two questions: have they run interfaces like yours in production, and will they still be there when something breaks at two in the morning. Our team has built Mirth Connect integration layers for revenue cycle companies, care networks and provider organizations since 2013, as part of 200+ healthcare projects. We work under HIPAA safeguards with ISO 27001 certified processes, and we sign Business Associate Agreements before touching production data. The six points below explain what that experience means for your project in practice.
For Coronis Health, a global RCM company, we built a Mirth Connect layer connecting many billing platforms with validation, crosswalks and audit management. Read the Coronis Health case study for the full architecture and results. Adding a new billing platform now takes configuration instead of new code.
For Xoomia, a unified healthcare platform connecting caregivers, agencies, clinics and government bodies, Mirth Connect brings hospital and laboratory data into one shared record. The Xoomia case study explains how the integration layer supports that network. Participants need no hardware or setup fees.
Taction is listed as a commercial support vendor on openintegrationengine.org, the open-source fork of Mirth Connect. That gives clients a supported path forward whichever licensing option they choose, without having to switch integration partners midway through a migration. We support both engines today.
When you need capacity rather than a project, you can hire Mirth Connect engineers who work inside your team and processes. Engineers are experienced with HL7 v2, FHIR, X12 and the JavaScript that most complex channels depend on. Engagements can start within weeks.
If your interfaces are stable, your version is supported and your team can maintain the channels, we will say so. Sometimes the right answer is a short review and a documented runbook rather than an ongoing engagement with a monthly retainer.
Channels, code templates, plugins and documentation belong to you. We hand over complete exports and documentation, so you can maintain the environment in-house or move it to another partner later without rebuilding any interface or losing knowledge about how it works.
These are the questions organizations ask most often before engaging a Mirth Connect services provider, whether they are starting a new integration, fixing an unstable environment or deciding what to do about licensing. The answers are deliberately short. If your situation depends on specific systems, message types or licence terms, a short call with our integration team will give you a clearer answer faster. For background on the licensing change and how it affects existing installations, read our comparison of NextGen Connect vs Mirth Connect, which explains the naming and version history.
They are professional services for building, deploying and operating Mirth Connect, the healthcare interface engine. Typical work includes channel development, EHR and lab interfaces, upgrades, migrations, monitoring, incident response and licensing guidance, all delivered under HIPAA safeguards with a signed BAA.
We bill a blended $50 per hour. A single standard channel typically costs $1,000 to $3,000, an interface project $8,000 to $40,000, a dedicated engineer $8,000 per month, and a support retainer $1,000 to $4,000 per month, depending on scope.
Version 4.5.2 and earlier remain available under the previous open-source terms, but new releases from version 4.6 onward require a commercial licence from NextGen Healthcare. Open Integration Engine offers an open-source alternative forked from version 4.5.2. We can help you compare these options.
Yes. Because Open Integration Engine is forked from Mirth Connect 4.5.2, most channels transfer with limited changes. We export, test and validate each channel in a parallel environment before cutover, so message flow continues without interruption during the migration. Rollback plans are always ready.
Yes. Most of our support clients inherited channels from former staff or vendors. We start with a review of channels, versions and security, document what exists, fix urgent issues and then move into regular monitoring and support under an agreed retainer.
This page covers the full range of commercial Mirth Connect services, including development, licensing and migration. Our dedicated support page focuses on ongoing operations only: monitoring, incident response, patching and maintenance for environments already running in production today. Choose whichever matches your current need.
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