Posts in category: Insights

Working with DHSC and NHS England, Synanetics helped explore how information can move more effectively between adult social care and health systems. Through user research, prototyping and supplier testing, the SCIP programme demonstrated how standards-based interoperability could help information follow the person, improving continuity of care.
The Social Care Interoperability Platform (SCIP) Hack Day brought together six digital social care record providers to test the practical realities of interoperability using a prototype federated integration platform deployed specifically to support the event. Working from a shared data model (MODS) and transforming to and from FHIR, teams were able to publish, retrieve, and consume synthetic data end-to-end within a single day.

Recently, I took part in a Shared Care Record Summit Learnathon, which focused on the International Patient Summary (IPS). It was encouraging to see all participants successfully generate and consume IPS documents using their care record systems. As with most interoperability hackathons/learnathons, the headline takeaway was, perhaps unsurprisingly: “Yes, this is technically possible.”