Interoperability Standards & Guidance
- Lewis Ford (Unlicensed)
- Jody Dunstan (Unlicensed)
Core Requirement | Relevant Standard | Short Description | Compliance, Assurance & Standards |
| The National Record Locator Service (NRLS) aims to provide a national capability for locating and, ultimately, sharing patient records across health and care systems | N/A | |
2. Transfer of Care | Â | Â | Â |
3. Diagnostic Management | Pathology messaging involves the electronic transmission of results of pathology tests | ||
4. Ordering and Management of Medicines | The Digital Medicines initiative aims to positively transform the way that Patients manage their medicines, promote new models of care as well as improve the medicines supply chain and the provision of medicines data. | ||
The NHS e-Referral Service (NHS e-RS) combines electronic booking with a choice of place, date and time for first hospital or clinic Appointments. | |||
EPS allows prescribers to send prescriptions electronically to a dispenser (such as a pharmacy) of the patient's choice. | |||
 | Any prescribed medicines dispensed beyond that date will require a 2D barcode to be scanned to "decommission" the medicine from the supply chain | ||
5. Decision Support | Â | Â | Â |
6. Remote and Assistive Care | Â | Â | Â |
7. Asset and Resource Management | Â | Â | Â |
8. Business and Clinical Insight | Â | Â | Â |
Generic Interopability Standards | |||
 | The External Interface Specification details how to connect to the NHS Digital Spine Service | Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions (ETP) | |
 |  |  | Electronic Referrals Service (e-RS). |
 |  |  | Gazetteer Service. |
 |  |  | Spine Directory Service (SDS). |
 |  |  | Spine Security Broker (SSB). |
 |  |  | Personal Demographics Service (PDS) – now known as Spine II Demographics. |
 |  |  | Legitimate Relationship Service (LRS). |
 |  |  | Personal Spine Information Services (PSIS) – now known as Spine II Clinicals |
 |  |  | Health and Social Care Initiative (HSCI) |
 |  |  | Child Protection Information Service (CPIS) |
 | The Generic FHIR Receiver is a component which will receive messages | Messaging Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH) | |
 | The Interoperability Toolkit (ITK) is a set of common specifications, frameworks and implementation guides that support interoperability. | ITK01 | |
 |  |  | ITK02 |
 |  |  | ITK03 |
 | The Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH) is a centralised message transfer service provided by NHS Digital using the Spine Services Core infrastructure |  | |
 | The Personal Demographics Service (PDS) is the national electronic database of NHS patient details such as name, address, date of birth and NHS Number (known as demographic information) |  | |
 | SEFT is an NHS Digital implementation of Tibco's MFT (Managed File Transfer) produc |  | |
 | The NHS Digital Spine supports national services such as the Personal Demographics Service (PDS), e-Referrals Service (e-RS), Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) and the Summary Care Record (SCR). |  | |
 | Spine Mini Services is a simplified read-only interface to some Spine Services, the most common one being Personal Demographics Service (PDS) | ||
 |  |  | Child Protection Information Sharing (CPIS) |
 |  |  | Summary Care Record (SCR) |
 |  |  | FGM Information Sharing (IS) |
 | The Summary Care Record (SCR) is an electronic record of important Patient information, created from GP medical records | ||
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