Interoperability

Hancock’s new tech vision at odds with GDE playbook

Matt Hancock has published a tech strategy founded on open standards, innovation and encouraging local choice with a move away
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Hancock’s ‘tech revolution’ to include mandatory open standards

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has published his plans for the use of digital in health
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Leeds heralds launch of GP Connect

GP Connect enables clinicians in community, mental health and acute trusts to access primary care data on their patients.
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FHIR spreads to Bristol as Connecting Care embraces open standard

Bristol City Council is using a Care Connect FHIR API to link its substance abuse management system with the city's
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System C commits to ‘full FHIR support’ to drive interoperability

The comprehensive commitment can be seen as the most significant interoperability move yet by a major supplier operating in the
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Hancock turns up the heat on bad blockers

Last week Matt Hancock gave his most detailed speech yet on how he intends to help ensure health and care
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Hancock issues stern warning to health IT suppliers

Speaking at NHS Expo on 6 September, Matt Hancock said the interest of suppliers ‘are too often not aligned with
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Health secretary highlights lack of national interoperability standards

Matt Hancock shadowed front-line staff during an overnight shift at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and said he was stuck by
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EPR divergence in a local area ‘will not be supported’ under HSLI

STPs will be expected to support a move to a standard electronic patient record system across all regional organisations under
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Servelec and Microtest assert interoperability ambitions with IT tie-up

From Autumn, NHS trusts using the Servelec RiO EPR will be able to share information with GP practices running Microtest
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