Originally published at: How to Install Mirth Connect in Docker - Open Integrator
In this guide, I will show you how you can install Mirth Connect in a docker container. Mirth Connect is an integration engine from NextGen Healthcare. You can choose to use this open-source version for free or also choose to get the software with commercial support from NextGen. This guide is about installing the open-source…
This is the video
I also made a video on installing Mirth connect on windows which might be helpfull
Hello! Thank you for creating this channel and community, your videos are great and very helpful.
I was wondering if you might be able to post instructions (maybe in video format??) where you add a very simple non-dicom image to your orthanc server using Mirth.
The flow would be; Non-DICOM file (jpg, pdf etc.) → Mirth Connect → Orthanc → OHIF.
A simple example that your subscribers could build on would be extremely helpful.
Thank you!
AJ
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Hi AJ! Thank you so much for the kind words — I really appreciate the support and feedback! 
I’m glad the videos have been helpful.
Your request is a great one. Converting non-DICOM content (like JPGs or PDFs) and pushing it to Orthanc via Mirth Connect, so that it shows up in OHIF, is a cool use case to look at.
Most likely in Mirth Connect we will need use javascript to call an external Java library like dcm4che.
Perhaps we could have an incoming hl7 message which includes patientid etc. metadata and it points to a pdf or jpg on a network disk and then we use Mirth to read the file from disk and wrap it in dicom and send it to Orthanc.
I think it should all be doable. Will get back to this once I have put something together 
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Here is an example of using java code in a Mirth channel. It doesn’t quite take it end to end yet but rather shows the “hard” part of converting pdf to dicom. Will let you know once I have the full flow done where it actually sends the DICOM to a DICOM archive.