Rhapsody vs. Mirth Connect 

A trusted, scalable platform built for healthcare integration at enterprise scale. 

For years, Mirth Connect has served as a go-to integration engine for healthcare organizations — offering a flexible, open-source starting point for getting connected. But with recent shifts in ownership, licensing, and long-term support, many teams are reevaluating their integration strategy. 

Rhapsody Integration is the natural next step — a platform that honors where you’ve been, while giving you the reliability, scale, and support to move forward with confidence. 

Real results:
Meeting customer demand with 10X performance gains

“We consolidated 20 legacy engines into one Rhapsody environment, reduced infrastructure costs, and improved onboarding speed by over 50%.” – Director of Integration, Qventus

Qventus completed numerous perioperative solution go-lives in 2023, which is more than they have ever completed in one year. While business nearly doubled year over year, the IT team only needed to grow by 40%. Ultimately, the staff can onboard an additional customer while maintaining a sustainable work-life balance.

The team now focuses on onboarding new customers faster and more efficiently because they offloaded the time-consuming IT infrastructure and security management to Rhapsody. The IT staff also focuses on higher-value work, such as innovating their solutions or ensuring data quality.

Mirth Connect

❌ Open-source deprecated; latest version is paid & proprietary

❌ Requires multiple engine instances to scale. Server sprawl + engineering overhead increases cost linearly

❌ Unclear pricing for commercial edition and support tiers

❌ Lower up-front cost, but higher long-term TCO as teams grow

❌ Requires advanced coding

❌ Limited without 3rd-party tools

❌ No source control; live runtime testing only

❌ Community or NextGen support tiers

❌ Limited training resources

❌ Focused on legacy HL7

❌ Cloud and Managed solutions are U.S. only

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Rhapsody Integration

✅ Transparent subscription pricing

✅ Multi-tenant scale with Lockers or Containers. Consolidate multiple customers or environments on a single instance to reduce infra and labor costs

✅ Fixed subscription pricing, no surprises

✅ Faster onboarding, reduced maintenance, and lower TCO at scale

✅ Drag-and-drop UI, reusable templates

✅ Built-in, enterprise-grade observability

✅ Versioning, sandbox testing, staged deployment

✅ 24/7 global support + professional services + active User Community

✅ Structured onboarding with guided training

✅ Native FHIR, APIs, automation

✅ Cloud, hybrid, and customer hosted options globally

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Mirth has played a pivotal role in healthcare integration for nearly two decades. Its open-source foundation and strong developer community helped countless organizations connect systems quickly and creatively. 

As the product transitions to a commercial model under new ownership, the value equation has shifted. Teams now face rising costs, limited testing functionality, and scalability roadblocks — not to mention growing uncertainty about long-term support and innovation. 

That’s why many are turning to Rhapsody — to simplify their environment, reduce operational burden, and gain a partner that’s built for healthcare at scale. 

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Low-code interface development

Drag-and-drop UI plus support for 40+ protocols = faster build cycles and lower engineering overhead.

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Scale with confidence

Rhapsody Lockers let you manage multiple customers, facilities, or business units on a single instance — without duplicating infrastructure.

Reliability and monitoring, built in

Granular alerting, role-based control, and audit-ready observability are included — not bolted on.

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Support when and where you need it

Global 24/7 technical support, guided onboarding, and deep documentation built around real-world healthcare needs.

Trusted across the healthcare ecosystem

Used by health tech innovators like Qventus, public health, and health systems large and small.

Centralized, Intelligent, Actionable Monitoring

Single pane of glass for monitoring multiple environments and multiple engines.

Our Migration Fast Track program helps you evaluate, plan, and execute your move from Mirth to Rhapsody — faster than you think.

What’s included:

  • Free architecture + TCO review
  • Tailored migration roadmap
  • Discounted implementation services
  • Rhapsody’s alerting can be tightly configured by error type, channel, or volume thresholds—with clean email or SNMP integrations

Ready to make the switch?