Joining up health and social care: what we learned prototyping the Social Care Interoperability Platform
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.
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SHCR Summit 2025: Patient mediated IPS sharing using a digital assistant
The recent Shared Care Record Summit Learnathon explored how International Patient Summaries (IPS) can be generated, shared, and consumed using FHIR standards and secure data sharing protocols. Our team showcased how a FHIR International Patient Summary (IPS) can be assembled on-the-fly from federated data using the NHS National Record Locator (NRL) and demonstrated patient-mediated sharing powered by an AI digital assistant.Introducing Symmetry: One Patient. One Plan. One Voice
We’re proud to introduce Symmetry, a new way to transform care planning into a strategic asset.SHCR Summit 2025: Reflections on the IPS Learnathon
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.”
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