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new to the whole health integration world. Trying to sort out from the promo sites whether Mirth Connect is even necessary for people like us. If we're integrating with a system like Cerner or Epic, and we're comfortable writing lower level code and building services and so on ourselves, does Mirth Connect actually do anything a software shop wouldn't want to do themselves? If so, what would that be?

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In principle, an interface engine buffers your system from the other system. For a once off implementation, that's irrelevant. But as you connect multiple systems to multiple systems (whether they differ by configuration or software type) an interface engine becomes more and more useful. That's still going to be true whether you're doing FHIR or anything else

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  • Thanks Grahame. In this case I think we'd be talking about connecting one LIMS to one hospital HIS. Do you think Mirth would be a big help? – Iain Duncan Apr 13 '16 at 21:31
  • Well, you'd be talking v2 (at the moment) and I wouldn't consider doing that without an interface engine. – Grahame Grieve Apr 14 '16 at 02:28