Taction Software — FHIR Integration with Mirth Connect
Emergency Response · 15-Min SLA on Silver+ · 24/7 On-Call

Mirth Connect Troubleshooting Services

When a Mirth Connect channel stops processing, the problem rarely waits for business hours. An ADT feed that drops overnight means missed admissions in the EHR by morning. A stuck result queue means lab data sitting behind a clinician who needs it now. Our senior Mirth engineers diagnose and resolve these failures fast — with a 15-minute emergency response SLA on Silver and above, 24/7.

We've delivered more than 5,000 HL7 interfaces over 12+ years, so most failures we see are ones we've fixed before. We don't restart the service and hope; we find the root cause so the same channel doesn't fail again next week.

  • ·15-minute emergency SLA on Silver+
  • ·24/7 on-call senior engineers
  • ·Root-cause fixes, not restarts
  • ·HIPAA BAAs with audit trails
  • ·5,000+ interfaces delivered
  • ·12+ years HL7 / FHIR delivery
What We Fix

Mirth Connect problems we resolve

These are the failure patterns we see most often across hospitals, reference labs, and healthtech platforms. Many have a self-serve fix guide; all of them have a senior engineer behind the contact form.

Channels not processing messages

Messages arriving but not moving through filters, transformers, or to the destination.

Fix guide: channel not processing

MLLP connection issues

Connection refused, reset, or dropped links between systems.

Fix guide: MLLP connection issues

Java heap space / OutOfMemoryError

Memory exhaustion under load or from a leaking channel.

Fix guide: Java heap space error

Database writer and reader errors

Failed inserts, connection pool exhaustion, deadlocks.

Guide: Mirth database configuration

JavaScript / Groovy transformer errors

Script exceptions silently dropping or corrupting messages.

Fix guide: transformer errors

Message queues stuck or backing up

Destination queues growing, messages not draining.

All common issues and fixes

Alerts not firing

Error conditions occurring with no notification reaching your team.

Slow performance / high CPU

Throughput degradation, lag, and resource spikes.

Fix guide: slow performance & high CPU

HL7 parsing errors and missing segments

Malformed messages and segment mapping failures.

Guide: common HL7 integration errors

HTTP listener 405 / Default404Servlet errors

Misrouted REST and FHIR endpoints returning errors instead of accepting traffic.

Fix guide: 405 / Default404Servlet

SSL/TLS handshake failures

Certificate and encryption configuration breaking secure channels.

Guide: SSL/TLS hardening
Emergency Response

How our emergency response works

1

You reach us

Through the emergency contact path. Silver, Gold, and Enterprise clients get a 15-minute response target; standard requests are answered within 4 business hours.

2

We connect to your environment

Under an existing or rapidly executed BAA, and reproduce the failure.

3

We isolate the root cause

Not just the symptom — using channel logs, message history, the Mirth dashboard, and your database and system metrics.

4

We fix and verify

The channel is fixed and verified under real traffic, then we document what failed and why.

5

We recommend prevention

Monitoring, alerting, or a config change so it doesn't recur. If you want that handled for you, it rolls into managed support.

Why Us

Why teams call us instead of fighting it alone

A single misconfigured transformer or an unhandled edge case can corrupt clinical or billing messages without an obvious error — the kind of failure that surfaces days later as missing results or denied charges. We've seen these patterns across hospitals, reference labs, and healthtech platforms, and we resolve them under HIPAA BAAs with full audit trails. Our engineers are real people who know Mirth Connect (NextGen Connect) end to end — not a first-tier ticket queue.

Troubleshooting is one part of our broader Mirth Connect support practice — productized monthly packages and fixed-price integration sprints, with every price published.

Not an emergency, but something's not right?

A free 60-minute Mirth Health Check reviews your channels, performance, and HIPAA posture and returns a written report with prioritized fixes.

Claim Your Free Health Check →
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What teams ask before getting emergency Mirth Connect help.

My Mirth channel stopped processing messages — what's the first thing to check?
Start with the channel's deployment state and the destination queue. A channel can show "started" while its destination is failing and silently queuing messages. Check the dashboard message counts, the error logs for the most recent exception, and whether the downstream system is reachable. If messages are queuing with errors, the cause is usually the destination connector or a transformer exception — both of which we can resolve quickly.
How fast can you respond to a Mirth emergency?
Our emergency response target is 15 minutes for critical failures on Silver, Gold, and Enterprise support. Standard requests on all tiers are answered within 4 business hours. We maintain 24/7 on-call senior engineers.
Do I need an ongoing contract to get emergency help?
The fastest response (15-minute SLA, 24/7 on-call) comes with Silver and above. We can also engage on a one-time basis, but for production systems that can't tolerate downtime, a managed support tier is the more reliable path.
Will you fix the root cause or just restart the channel?
Root cause. Restarting clears the symptom but leaves you exposed to the same failure. We document what failed, why, and what change prevents recurrence.
Is my PHI safe during troubleshooting?
Yes. We work under HIPAA Business Associate Agreements, with encrypted access and audit logging. PHI exposure is minimized to what's required to diagnose the issue.

Get the interface back up.

Tell us what's failing and a senior Mirth engineer will respond — 15 minutes on Silver and above, 24/7.

HIPAA BAAs with audit trails · 24/7 on-call senior engineers · 12+ years HL7 / FHIR delivery · 5,000+ interfaces shipped