Taction Software — FHIR Integration with Mirth Connect
Productized Support · 15-min SLA · USA

Mirth Connect Support Company — Productized Pricing, 15-Minute SLA

Looking for a Mirth Connect support company that actually publishes its prices, holds a 15-minute emergency SLA, and signs a BAA before any PHI touches the engagement? Bronze $3,800/mo, Silver $6,800/mo, Gold $12,500/mo. Sprint engagements from $4,500. Free 30-minute Mirth Health Check produces a written 12-point audit within 48 hours, no obligation.

12+ years of HL7 / FHIR delivery · 5,000+ interfaces shipped · CMMI L3 process maturity · HIPAA + GDPR · Senior architects in Chicago, Austin, Sacramento, Cheyenne · Delivery teams in Noida operating under BAA

What a Mirth Connect support company actually does

A Mirth Connect support company runs the integration engine on your behalf — channels, transformers, MLLP listeners, FHIR endpoints, the database, the JVM, the OS underneath. The work splits into four categories, and you should know which one a vendor is selling you before you sign anything.

Reactive incident response

Channel down. ACK not returning. Java heap exhausted. MLLP refusing connections. A support company answers the page, diagnoses, and restores service. The variable that matters most: time to first qualified engineer on the call. Our floor is 15 minutes on Silver and above, measured from page-out to a senior engineer (not a triage rep) being live on the bridge.

Proactive monitoring and operations

Queue depths, transformer execution time, certificate expiry, database growth, log forwarding to your SIEM, version-currency. A real support company catches problems before clinical workflows notice. If a vendor's "monitoring" is a dashboard you check yourself, that's not monitoring — that's a screensaver.

Change management

New channels added to existing infrastructure. EHR upgrades that force MLLP changes. NextGen Connect version bumps. Vendor changes that ripple through to interface specifications. Without a change-management discipline, every change is an incident waiting to happen.

Knowledge retention

Channel documentation, runbooks, transformer code reviews, rollback procedures. A good support relationship leaves your internal team smarter, not more dependent. Our handover packs sit in your Git repository, not ours.

How to evaluate a Mirth Connect support company

Five questions that separate real Mirth shops from generalist IT vendors that have a Mirth slide in the deck.

What's your bench size for senior Mirth engineers specifically?

A real Mirth support company employs at least four senior Mirth engineers — enough for 24/7 on-call rotation without burning anyone out. Ask for the bench size. If the answer is two people, you're a key-person risk away from a support gap.

Will you provide a BAA before the first call?

HIPAA requires it the moment PHI could be observed. A vendor that's reluctant on the BAA is a vendor that hasn't done healthcare work at scale. We sign a BAA before any paid engagement.

Show me a real channel documentation artifact.

Not the sales deck. A real channel doc from a real prior client (redacted). This filters everyone who can talk about Mirth from everyone who has actually shipped it. Most can't produce one.

What's the cap on the monthly hour pool, and what happens at the cap?

Hour-pool plans should have an explicit overage policy. Ours: overages bill at the same effective rate as the tier, not at a punitive uplift, and we surface burn-down weekly so there's no end-of-month surprise.

Who responds to a 3am page — your engineers or an offshore triage layer that escalates?

This is the question most vendors dance around. Our 15-minute SLA is measured to a senior Mirth engineer on the bridge. No triage hand-off. The same engineers who do paid sprint work answer the page.

Productized vs hourly Mirth Connect support — what changes

Almost every Mirth Connect support company prices by the hour. That works for the vendor — every scope question becomes billable time, every clarification call extends the invoice — but it punishes the buyer. Three problems with hourly billing for ongoing support:

You never know what next month costs. Budgeting gets reactive. Procurement teams hate it.

Scope discipline runs the wrong direction.A scope-creep conversation between a buyer and an hourly vendor benefits the vendor. The vendor has no economic reason to say "no, that's out of scope" — it's just more billable hours. Over a year, the hour count drifts upward without anyone deciding to spend more.

The relationship becomes adversarial at quarter-end. Buyers push back on hours, vendors defend them, the working relationship erodes.

Productized monthly tiers fix all three. You know the cost, the scope is named in the SOW, and overages are explicit and limited. We've held this pricing model for three years across hundreds of healthcare clients — the same productized approach used for our broader Mirth Connect support practice.

Our pricing — every number public

TierMonthly costEngineer hoursCritical SLABest for
Bronze$3,800/mo60 hours4-hourSmall clinics, single-site practices, HealthTech startups under 10 channels
Silver$6,800/mo120 hours15-minuteRegional health systems, mid-market HealthTech with 10–30 channels
Gold$12,500/mo240 hours15-minute, 24/7 on-callMulti-site health systems, hospital networks
EnterpriseFrom $28,000/mo640 hours (4 FTE)CustomFortune 500 healthcare, IDNs, large payer-provider integrations

Sprint engagements (one-time projects) start at $4,500 (Mirth installation) and run to $118,000 (enterprise migration). See all 8 productized sprints →

How engagements start

Three doors. Pick whichever fits your situation.

1

Free Mirth Health Check

Most teams start here. 30-minute screen-share with a senior engineer, written 12-point audit report within 48 hours. No follow-up sales sequence. Free for qualifying organizations.

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2

Productized sprint

You already know what you need — engine migration, FHIR R4 adapter, eClinicalWorks $export, HIPAA audit. Pick the sprint, get the SOW, start within two weeks.

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3

Monthly managed support

Direct conversation with a solutions architect about the right tier. NDA available.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

How is a Mirth Connect support company different from NextGen Connect official support?
NextGen sells per-server commercial support and bundles it with the commercial NextGen Connect distribution. Independent support firms work with the open-source Mirth Connect codebase (which remains MPL 1.1 licensed) and the commercial NextGen Connect distribution as needed. Customers commonly choose an independent firm because productized pricing is more predictable than a tiered commercial contract and because a 15-minute emergency SLA isn't standard in vendor support agreements.
Can you support a Mirth Connect deployment we already have running?
Yes. The standard onboarding starts with the free Mirth Health Check, which produces a written 12-point audit within 48 hours. From there, the audit findings determine whether the right next step is a one-time sprint to close specific gaps, ongoing monthly support, or both.
Do you provide 24/7 emergency response?
On Silver and above, yes. The 15-minute critical SLA is measured to a senior Mirth engineer on the bridge — not a first-responder who escalates. Bronze tier provides a 4-hour business-hours SLA, which fits most small clinics but not health systems with clinical-critical channels.
Where are the engineers based?
Senior architects and incident-response leads are in Chicago, Austin, Sacramento, and Cheyenne. Implementation teams are in Noida, India. All engagement is under HIPAA BAA and CMMI Level 3 process maturity. The 24/7 on-call follow-the-sun rotation is what makes the 15-minute SLA economically possible — a US-only team running 24/7 would price out at three times the rate.
Will you sign a BAA before we share anything?
Yes, before any paid engagement. The free Mirth Health Check doesn't require PHI access — it's screen-share only — so a BAA isn't strictly required to run the audit, but we'll sign one if your organization requires it pre-call.
What's the typical onboarding timeline?
Health check, SOW, and BAA in week one. Knowledge transfer and shadow on-call in week two. Full support coverage starts week three. Faster paths exist for emergencies — we've onboarded production support coverage in 48 hours when a client's previous vendor walked off mid-incident.
Do you replace our existing integration team or augment it?
Either. Most clients hire us to augment a small in-house team — we cover 24/7 on-call and specialist work, the in-house team covers business-context decisions and EHR-vendor relationships. A minority of clients hire us as the full integration team. Both engagement shapes work.

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The fastest path is the free Mirth Health Check. 30-minute call, written report in 48 hours, no obligation. The report itself is the deliverable — yours to keep whether you ever talk to us again or not.