Digital Health May 5, 2022
A draft standards and interoperability strategy has been published with the aim of driving interoperability across the NHS and social care.
The Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) was commissioned by the NHS England and Improvement Transformation Directorate to help them with consultation on the proposed strategy which involved stakeholders from across health and care.
The overall aim of the document is to improve levels of interoperability across the NHS and social care through the development and adoption of standards. This includes an overview of the challenges and opportunities, clarifies definitions of key terms and outlines the main proposed solutions.
According to the strategy there are a number of “foundations of success” which include “understanding and overcoming current barriers to implementation”...