Dedalus Patient Centre Integration

Trusted by NHS organisations and healthtech innovators, 6B delivers full-lifecycle Dedalus Patient Centre integration, from discovery and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support. We build secure, scalable integrations for patient administration, appointment management, referrals, clinical workflows, diagnostics, patient communications, and reporting.

Our team combines NHS patient administration expertise with HL7 FHIR, HL7 messaging, REST APIs, integration engines, identity management, and clinical safety. We help digital solutions work alongside Patient Centre while maintaining accurate patient identities, dependable data flows, and continuity across connected systems.

Understanding Dedalus Patient Centre

Dedalus Patient Centre is a Patient Administration System (PAS) used within NHS acute care environments to support core administrative workflows. NHS organisations identify the platform as a central system for patient administration and booking, while deployments can connect with EPR, radiology, theatre, laboratory, cardiology, and intensive care systems.

Patient Centre provides access to patient details and episodes of care and supports the administrative information required as patients move through hospital services.

As a PAS sits at the centre of numerous clinical and operational workflows, effective integration is essential for maintaining consistent demographics, appointments, referrals, admissions, transfers, and other patient information across the wider digital estate.

Patient Centre and Dedalus iPM are also listed as integrated products for NHS England’s Personal Demographics Service FHIR API, demonstrating the platform’s role within national patient identity workflows.

Our Dedalus Patient Centre Integration Process

We begin with structured discovery involving administrative, clinical, operational, digital, technical, and governance stakeholders. Together, we identify workflows, users, data requirements, dependencies, and intended outcomes.

Typical integrations include patient demographic synchronisation, referrals, appointment booking, admissions, transfers and discharges, diagnostic workflows, clinical-system integration, patient communications, and operational reporting.

We map NHS numbers, local patient identifiers, demographics, referrals, appointments, episodes, admissions, locations, transfers, and discharge information across connected systems. Particular attention is given to duplicate records, demographic amendments, patient merges, cancelled appointments, rebooking, and updates arriving out of sequence.

Architecture is designed around the interfaces available within the target Patient Centre deployment. This may include HL7 messaging, FHIR-based services where supported, REST APIs, integration engines, secure web services, document exchange, or event-driven messaging.

We establish authoritative systems for patient demographics, referrals, appointments, clinical information, and encounter status to prevent conflicting updates across Patient Centre and connected applications.

Authentication and access can incorporate OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, NHS CIS2, single sign-on, service accounts, and role-based permissions where appropriate. Reusable integration components accelerate development while testing validates patient matching, data mapping, permissions, auditability, message sequencing, failure handling, and reconciliation.

Before launch, we coordinate acceptance testing, clinical safety activities, deployment, documentation, and operational readiness. After go-live, we monitor interfaces, resolve integration issues, and maintain compatibility with Patient Centre and connected NHS services.

Benefits of Dedalus Patient Centre Integration

Administrative teams benefit from more consistent demographics, referrals, appointments, and patient activity across systems, reducing duplicate data entry and manual reconciliation.

Clinicians gain better access to information held within connected clinical and diagnostic applications without unnecessary disruption to established workflows.

Operational teams gain improved visibility across patient journeys, while digital teams can reduce fragmented interfaces and improve the reliability of information exchanged between PAS, EPR, diagnostic, and specialist systems.

Patients benefit from smoother administrative journeys, reduced repetition, and better coordination as they move between appointments, investigations, admissions, and follow-up care.

For healthtech vendors, Patient Centre integration provides a route for embedding digital solutions within established NHS hospital workflows through secure, reusable interoperability architecture.