2009 Innovation in healthcare interoperability

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NHS Connecting for Health - GP2GP

NHS Connecting for Health's (CfH) GP2GP initiative brings together competing GP system suppliers to enable electronic health records from different systems to be transferred into and out of each other’s database without compromising quality or patient safety. Now seen as one of the CfH’s flagship projects, GP2GP facilitates 10,000 transfers per week.

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Graphnet Health - Excellence in interoperability

An impressive portfolio of work in healthcare bears testimony to Graphnet Health’s long track record of achievement in interoperability. The company’s first work, a web-based EPR deployed in the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust in the 1990s still serves the trust today. Other clients include: Informing Healthcare, Wales; Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust; Salford PCT and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.

EMIS - EMIS Web

EMIS Web is beginning to deliver what clinicians, NHS managers and patients have been waiting for – efficient, seamless healthcare without boundaries. Community teams and extended primary care providers UK-wide are benefiting from interoperable access to GP patient data enabled by EMIS Web.

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