Project summary

NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board (ICB) undertakes the statutory responsibilities for planning and commissioning health and care services in Dorset.

6B worked with NHS Dorset ICB to review the existing integration and interoperability landscape across the Dorset ICS and to recommend improvements utilising modern technologies and open standards. The proposed target interoperability and integration architecture aimed to establish an ICS-wide data platform at its core, to enable real-time integration of data streams, and to offer valuable insights to care services in the region. Using open data standards like openEHR for persistence and HL7 FHIR for communications, and modern secure cloud based technologies, the proposed architecture was designed to facilitate better interoperability across the county and to enable the effective delivery of patient-centred care.