MIRTH CONNECT EXAMPLE ON DOCKER

Authors: Marly Cormar, Surya Prasanna.

The goal of this multi-container docker is to test the functionalities of Mirth Connect. In particular, we will use Mirth Connect to read an HL7 message of type (ADT-A01) Admit a patient over an HTTP request, transform it, and then send it to a channel writer.

The channel ./mirth-connect/channel.xml will read all the hl7 messages (with format ADT-A01) sent over HTTP requests.

A Mirth-Connect image can be found here with instructions here on how to use it.

Configuration

1. Create all the containers in detached mode:

    docker-compose up -d
   

2. Open Mirth Connect by double clicking file webstart.jnlp. Use credentials:

    admin
    admin
   

3. Once Mirth Connect is open, we need to import the example channel. Click on Channels located on left menu.

4. Also on the left menu, click Import Channel and add the channel ./mirth-connect/channel.xml

5. Deploy channel.

6. To send an http request to the docker container, use

   curl -X POST --header 'Content-Type: application/xml' --header 'Accept: text/html' -d 'MSH|^~\&|EPICADT|DH|LABADT|DH|201301011226||ADT^A01|HL7MSG00001|P|2.3|EVN|A01|201301011223||PID|||MRN12346^2^M11||Noether^Emmy||19710101|F||C|1 DATICA STREET^^MADISON^WI^13001-1020|GL|(414)379-1212|(414)271-3434||S||MRN12344001^2^M10|123456789|987654^NC|' 'http://127.0.0.1:8002/api/channels/<channel_id>/messages'
   

Please make sure to substitute <channel_id> with the actual channel id, e.g. 69c079fd-1cc3-469f-8f00-b4c51638fdde.

Useful:

• ssh into container:

    docker exec -it <mycontainer_id> bash
  

• database credentials:

    database: mirth-test
    user: mirth
    password: password
  

• the local folder ./shared_folder/ is shared with the docker container that has mirth. The contents of such folder are being mapped to /var/shared_volume in the mirth container.

• open ports:

  • mirth-connect:

      8002->8002
      8080->8080
      8443->8443
    

  • mysql:

      3306->3306