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Open-source HIE company Mirth Corp., has an interoperability program called the Mirth Meaningful Use Exchange (Mirth MUx), and says the system now is being deployed at Redwood MedNet.

As the name suggests, Mirth MUx is intended to help healthcare providers with the data-exchange requirements of the federal regulations for meaningful use of EMR s. The open-source system facilitates secure exchange of clinical information over the Internet, following standards such as HL7, DICOM, ANSI X12 and the Continuity of Care Document. "It eliminates the cost and inefficiency of one-off, point-to-point connections by releasing a standard NHIN-enabled gateway configuration," Redwood MedNet Project Manager Will Ross says in a statement from Mirth.

"We are focused on helping health care providers across Northern California meet anticipated meaningful use objectives," said Will Ross, Project Manager at Redwood MedNet. "Our key constituency is the small hospital or small practice which lacks the information technology resources of large healthcare organizations. Technology adoption for electronic health data interoperability can be a daunting challenge for a small organization with limited technology resources. Redwood MedNet helps small facilities succeed because electronic health data delivery is our core business. The release of Mirth MUx improves our ability to quickly bring electronic health data interoperability to any facility," added Ross.

Mirth MUx is designed to enable healthcare delivery organizations of all sizes to achieve proposed meaningful use criteria for clinical information exchange. 

Source: StatCom

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