Why HL7v2 Still Wins for Pushing Data Into the EMR

FHIR may dominate interoperability conversations, but HL7v2 remains the fastest and most reliable way to write data back into the EMR. Learn why modern health tech teams are embracing a hybrid integration strategy.

AI for Healthcare Needs Interoperability

AI for Healthcare Needs Interoperability (More than Anything Else)

AI in healthcare is only as strong as its data. Learn why interoperability, TEFCA, and FHIR-based integration are critical to building an AI-ready healthcare organization.

The Promise and Problems with Individual’s Access To Health Data

Individual Access Services (IAS) under TEFCA is transforming healthcare interoperability by putting patients at the center of data exchange. Learn how IAS works, key challenges like identity verification and patient matching, and what providers and digital health apps must do to succeed in 2026 and beyond.

Zen Healthcare IT Achieves Third Full HITRUST r2 Certification

Zen Healthcare IT Achieves Third Full HITRUST r2 Certification

Zen Healthcare IT earns its third consecutive HITRUST r2 Certification, aligned with the HITRUST CSF v11 framework, reinforcing its commitment to security and compliance.

Zen Healthcare IT Announces Native Support for CLEAR© and ID.me© for Individual Access Services (IAS)

Zen Healthcare IT Announces Native Support for CLEAR and ID.me for Individual Access Services (IAS)

Zen Healthcare IT’s Stargate API now supports IAS identity tokens from ID.me and CLEAR, simplifying TEFCA onboarding for digital health vendors.

5 Things Health Tech Leaders Need to Know About ACCESS

CMS ACCESS is the biggest Medicare opportunity for digital health in a decade. Zen Healthcare IT President and Co-Founder Marilee Benson explains what the ACCESS Model means for reimbursement, interoperability, outcomes reporting, and how health tech leaders should prepare now.

The Biggest Shift in Health Tech Regulation Since HITECH (And What It Means for Your Organization in 2026)

Zen Healthcare IT President and Co-Founder Marilee Benson breaks down the biggest health tech regulatory shift since HITECH, and the four CMS-driven changes shaping interoperability, compliance, and growth in 2026.

Key Takeaways from Civitas & CommonWell 2025

Zen Healthcare IT shares key takeaways from Civitas 2025 and the CommonWell Fall Summit, highlighting how HIEs are driving action, TEFCA momentum is building, and IAS adoption is opening new opportunities in nationwide interoperability. Hear insights from Zen leaders on what’s next for trusted data exchange.

The Covered Entity Conundrum: How TEFCA’s Treatment Definition is Creating Unintended Barriers to Healthcare Data Exchange

A major policy shift is underway for Carequality participants. Learn how the new Delegation of Authority policy aligned with TEFCA could impact your organization and what steps to take before the September migration.

If You’re Connected to Carequality, September is Going to Affect You: What You Need to Know About Delegation of Authority

A major policy shift is underway for Carequality participants. Learn how the new Delegation of Authority policy aligned with TEFCA could impact your organization and what steps to take before the September migration.

Zen’s Mirth® Connect Resource Center

 

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Mirth® Connect Tutorial Videos

 

A video tutorial on replacing Mirth® Connect’s internal Derby database with the more robust and capable PostgreSQL.

A video tutorial on using channel tags and channel groups to keep your channels organized in Mirth® Connect.

A detailed guide to the configuration map feature in Mirth® Connect. Configuration maps can speed up channel maintenance and make Mirth® Connect server deployments much easier.

Using the Data Pruner effectively allows you to make your Mirth® Connect channels more performant and scalable. In this video, we to do a quick overview of the Data Pruner and walk you through how to set it up at the global and channel level.

Attachments are a great way to optimize how Mirth® Connect handles large messages by reducing the amount of data being stored in the database. In this video, we explore the various ways you can work with attachments in Mirth® Connect.

In this video, we review the top 3 things you MUST DO after downloading and installing Mirth® Connect to set yourself up for success.

General Healthcare IT Educational Videos

 

Essential Mirth® Connect Tools

 

Zen’s SSL Extension

 

An affordable way to enable SSL control, troubleshooting, and proactive certificate management embedded into your open source Mirth® Connect workflow.

  • Integrated Certificate Manager – manage, import, and create certificates
  • HTTPS, TCPS, and LLPS Listeners and Senders – build secure inbound and outbound connections
  • Purchase annual subscription without the need to move to the commercial version of Mirth® Connect

Zen Insight Monitoring & Alerting

 

Zen Insight Integration Monitor provides in-depth alerting, monitoring and analysis of all your Mirth® Connect channels and instances from one centralized location.

  • Proactive alerting allows you to spot potential problematic channels before they cause an outage
  • A centralized dashboard provides historical channel performance and alert history to help you properly allocate resources
  • Automatic alert generation is based on real time channel behavior such as error rates, queuing, message volume, & more

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Guide to Mirth® Connect for Vendors

 

Five notable Mirth® Connect plugins and extensions for Healthcare IT Vendors

 

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Three must-dos for anyone downloading Mirth® Connect the first time

 

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