GP IT suppliers agree to standard open APIs
England’s four principal GP IT system suppliers are committed to developing standard open APIs and are working on a plan detailing when they will be released, NHS England has said.
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Open your APIs: GPSoC’s integration project two years on
The latest GP Systems of Choice contract required principal GP system suppliers to open up to new players. Two years on, news editor Rebecca McBeth looks at what has been achieved and what remains work in progress.
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Agreement gives NHS access to Kanteron Systems’ imaging and genomic data integration platform
Kanteron Systems is to enable the NHS to access its Translational Medical Information Server (TMIS), under the custodianship of an OpenPACS Code4Health community, so clinicians and researchers can access imaging and genomic data at the point of care.
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Salford plans to put CareInMotion
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has bought Allscripts’ CareInMotion dbMotion population health management platform, for the replacement of the Salford Integrated Record.
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Patient-facing integrations with GP systems run late
The April 2016 target for getting the first third-party suppliers of patient facing services integrated with the principal GP systems will not be met; but the companies involved say it will happen within months and transform the market.
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E-discharge: standard clinical headings required by Dec
All NHS providers must send digital discharge summaries to GPs using standard clinical headings by December this year, the new draft NHS standard contract says.
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Special report: Interoperability
Over the past year, there has been an explosion of frameworks, declarations and charters supporting interoperability. But have they set the right direction, and do they have the levers to deliver? asks Daloni Carlisle.
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Digital Child Health Hub proposed
NHS England wants to create a Digital Child Health Hub to bring together information on a child’s health from multiple systems.
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Emis Health opens Web to third parties
Emis Health has announced an update to its Emis Web clinical system that will allow it to interoperate with any third party supplier conforming to a published set of open application interfaces.
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Ireland consults public on identifier
Ireland’s Health Service Executive has launched a public consultation on the privacy implications of creating a unique health identifier, similar to the NHS Number.
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