Your Mirth Connect Channels Should Be in Git. Here's How to Make That Happen.

Your Mirth Connect Channels Should Be in Git. Here's How to Make That Happen. I've been doing healthcare integration work for over a decade now. In that time I've seen exactly one constant across every shop I've worked at: nobody has version control on their Mirth channels when I walk in the door. Think about that. You've got channels processing thousands of HL7 messages a day, moving patient data between your EHR, your lab, your pharmacy, your billing system. If somebody makes a bad change on a Friday afternoon, your options are "remember what it looked like before" or "restore from a backup that may or may not exist." That's not a plan. That's hope. Why this keeps happening It's not because integration engineers are lazy. It's because Mirth doesn't make it easy. Channels live inside the application. The configuration is XML blobs stored in a database. There's no "save to file system" button that slots into a normal Git workflow. So teams do what teams do when something is hard. They