Health Connect vs. Mirth Connect: Why teams choose InterSystems Health Connect for enterprise-grade healthcare integration
InterSystems is a trusted partner for healthcare providers and application developers worldwide.
High-performance. Scalable. Transparent pricing.
InterSystems Health Connect is the scalable, secure, healthcare-native solution built for critical, and fast evolving real-world interoperability. It is designed to excel in security, performance, and interoperability with predictable pricing.
You'll get Global 24/7 support, Cloud Ops experts, detailed documentation, well-defined onboarding, and an active developer community with built-in tools to support interface and transformation migration from legacy systems to Health Connect.
You'll get Global 24/7 support, Cloud Ops experts, detailed documentation, well-defined onboarding, and an active developer community with built-in tools to support interface and transformation migration from legacy systems to Health Connect.
Mirth Connect vs. Health Connect How Health Connect Delivers More, By Design
Capability | InterSystems Health Connect | Mirth Connect |
| Market Segment: Any healthcare enterprise and app/solution partners |
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| Deployment Options: Cloud PaaS, managed services, or on-prem global reach |
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(On-prem or DIY cloud only) |
| Pricing: Upfront transparent pricing with no interface limit |
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| Scalability: Multiple interfaces to run on a single instance and built in multi-tenancy |
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| Support Model: 24/7 global support + cloud ops team + dev community |
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| Training Resources: Guided onboarding, docs, courses, in-product help |
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(Limited) |
| Standards Support: Native HL7, FHIR, CDA, DICOM, X12, MQTT, FILEs, and more |
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(HL7 focus, FHIR as a plugin) |
| Source Control & Testing: Built-in change control; Isolated dev/test/prod environments |
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| Observability: Built-in tracing, alerting, dashboard integrations |
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(Limited) |
| Audit Support: Secure and separated audit storage with message re-send |
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The Health Connect Difference
Healthcare-Native Design
Health Connect supports HL7 v2, FHIR (natively), CDA, DICOM, X12/EDI, and IHE profiles, all without plugins.
Performance & Scale
Optimized for critical and real-time data exchange, handling high message volumes across hospitals, networks, and system.
No-Surprise Costs
Health Connect doesn’t limit your growth. It includes all enterprise features like connectors, transformations, routing and more under a clear, predictable pricing model.
Faster Time to Value & Choice in Deployment Environment
Build pipelines with pre-built components (e.g connectors), data validations and graphical tools for transformations, rules, and routing. On-prem or as a fully managed Cloud Service.
Advanced FHIR Support
Native FHIR support to innovate faster and meet regulatory compliance.
Security and Compliance
Health Connect includes built-in support for HIPAA, ISO, role-based access, auditing, API management, OAuth, firewall, and DNS configuration without additional add-ons or investment
Your Health Connect Questions Answered
We already built everything in Mirth. How do we transition to Health Connect?
Many organizations started with Mirth, then outgrew it. Health Connect has tooling and services to accelerate migration and reduce rework.
What if we don't have the staff to manage integration?
That’s why we offer Health Connect — fully managed, so your team can focus on care, not systems.
How will Health Connect address our FHIR needs in the future?
Health Connect offers complete FHIR support — including a FHIR Repository and FHIR Server — so you're ready for the FHIR-powered future of healthcare
InterSystems is recognized and trusted as a leader in healthcare interoperability for 47+ years
1 Billion
Health records managed using InterSystems technology globally
2 Million
Number of concurrent Epic users leveraging our technology
100%
% of hospitals on the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll that use our products
47+
Years dedicated to healthcare interoperability
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