# nextgenhealthcare/connect

The swiss army knife of healthcare integration.

Repository: https://github.com/nextgenhealthcare/connect
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nextgenhealthcare-connect
Language: Java
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: mirth, mirth-connect, hl7, healthcare, integration, interoperability
Last push: 2024-09-23T16:32:01+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3010, "days_push": 709, "days_rel": 709, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1190, forks 465 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:56.016354+00:00)

## What it is
Mirth Connect by NextGen Healthcare is an open-source healthcare integration engine that filters, transforms, extracts, and routes messages between systems, translating standards like HL7 into formats each system understands. Channels are designed and managed through a graphical Administrator interface, with installers for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

## Use cases
- convert HL7 v2 messages to XML or FHIR
- route patient messages between hospital systems
- integrate an EHR with lab and radiology systems
- build a healthcare interface engine for an HIE
- extract data from and push data to a database from HL7 feeds
- filter and transform incoming clinical messages

## When to choose
- you need to translate and route HL7 or other healthcare message standards between systems
- you want a mature, GUI-managed integration engine for clinical data exchange
- you need filtering, transformation, and multi-destination routing in one tool

## When to avoid
- your integration needs are outside healthcare messaging and a general ETL or message broker would suffice
- you need a lightweight library to embed rather than a standalone server application
- you require a permissively licensed dependency - the license is a custom NextGen license, not a standard open-source one

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: message-queue, etl, routing, middleware, serialization, http-server
- domain: healthcare, backend
- platform: jvm, windows, cross-platform, self-hosted
- tags: hl7, mirth-connect, healthcare-integration, fhir, message-transformation, interface-engine, hipaa, integration, interoperability, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- nextgenhealthcare/connect (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:56.016354+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:23:05.227556+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nextgenhealthcare/connect (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:56.016354+00:00, sha 8c1a81be603e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.