Integrate your healthtech solution with Altera Sunrise, a leading acute and ambulatory EPR system, using 6B’s secure, standards-based interoperability services. We help you connect clinical, operational, and financial data into a single patient record - enabling real-time insights and smoother workflows across hospital and health system settings.
Get in touchWhether you're developing a new digital health product or extending an existing solution with Altera Sunrise integration, 6B brings the technical expertise, healthcare insight, and experience needed to accelerate delivery.
Trusted by NHS hospital trusts, community care providers, and digital health innovators, 6B delivers full-lifecycle Sunrise integration – from initial discovery and design to development, deployment, and long-term support. Whether you’re building decision-support modules, analytics dashboards, order entry tools, or patient engagement portals, our integrations are robust, scalable, and aligned with NHS standards.
Altera Sunrise is a comprehensive EPR platform that spans acute, ambulatory, and financial domains. It provides a unified clinical record while integrating mission-critical workflows such as medication management, observations, diagnostics, task coordination, and billing, all within a single interface. The platform also integrates business intelligence and analytics tools that combine clinical and financial data to support quality improvement, resource management, and population health initiatives.
Designed for flexibility and scale, Sunrise supports deployment alongside existing patient administration systems, enabling low-risk digital transformation. Its modular architecture supports real-time data exchange, mobile-enabled access, and advanced integration options – making it a powerful fit for NHS environments focused on modernising care delivery.
At 6B, we start every Sunrise integration with a discovery phase to clarify workflows, data flows, and performance expectations. We collaborate with clinical, operational, and IT teams to map key use cases such as order entry, electronic prescribing, clinical documentation, and analytics reporting.
We then design a secure, scalable architecture built on HL7 FHIR and RESTful APIs, using OAuth2/OpenID Connect for authentication. Whether embedding your solution within Sunrise or deploying via microservices, our integrations handle real-time and batch data flows across clinical, operational, and financial domains.
Our developers build using reusable integration assets that include FHIR resource mappings, secure authentication handlers, and message-routing pipelines. Each integration is rigorously tested in staging environments to validate data integrity, performance, security, and audit compliance before deployment.
Once live, we coordinate go-live activities, deploy ongoing monitoring tools, and provide first-line support. We update the integration in line with new Sunrise releases, NHS interoperability standards, and evolving clinical or operational needs.
Clinicians gain seamless access to comprehensive patient data – orders, observations, notes, alerts, and results – within one connected interface. This promotes informed decision-making, reduces manual entry, and improves safety and efficiency.
Operational and financial teams benefit from integrated data flows that streamline workflows, support resource optimisation, and enhance cost transparency. Analytics tools draw on real-time clinical and financial data to inform quality improvement, antibiotic stewardship, infection control, and overall service performance.
Patients experience more coordinated, consistent care as their information flows smoothly through hospital systems and into outpatient pathways. Integrations also support smoother transitions across care settings, reducing delays and improving continuity.
Digital health vendors gain momentum by embedding applications directly into a trusted, widely adopted EPR platform. Standards-based integration speeds up NHS deployment and ensures scalability across multiple care settings.
6B has extensive experience integrating with complex hospital EPR systems, including Sunrise. Our team understands its modular architecture and has supported integrations covering clinical documentation, prescribing, lab results, task management, and BI reporting.
We use proven technologies – HL7 FHIR, REST APIs, and OAuth2/OpenID Connect – to build reliable, secure, and scalable integrations. We tailor each solution to your deployment context, including cloud, hybrid, and HSCN-connected environments.
Our library of reusable assets – FHIR adaptors, authentication modules, and message routers – is continuously updated to reflect NHS best practices and new Sunrise functionality. This ensures fast delivery without compromising quality or compliance.
Security and clinical safety are built into every project. We design integrations that meet ISO 27001, NHS DSPT, and DCB standards, embedding audit trails, data governance mechanisms, and user access controls.
From discovery to post-go-live support, 6B offers end-to-end account ability. Our multidisciplinary teams bridge clinical practice and technical delivery, ensuring your Sunrise integration delivers measurable impact in live NHS settings.
Key FHIR R4 resources in Sunrise integrations include Patient, Encounter, Observation, MedicationRequest, DiagnosticReport, Appointment, and Order resources. These align with UK Core profiles to support documentation, prescribing workflows, results reporting, and operational coordination.
Altera Sunrise has offered FHIR APIs since around 2015 and complies with FHIR R4 as per the US 21st Century Cures Act. It supports SMART on FHIR launch frameworks, enabling third-party decision support and analytics apps to embed seamlessly into the EPR environment.
Yes. Sunrise supports integrated workflows spanning clinical documentation, lab results, order entry, billing, and revenue cycle management—allowing data routing from integrated tools directly into Sunrise’s unified health and financial record.
Integrations rely on OAuth2/OpenID Connect authentication flows, enabling secure token-based access for internal and external applications, while preserving audit trails and aligning with NHS cybersecurity frameworks.
Successful integration uses NHS number and patient demographics matching logic, supported by middleware entity-matching algorithms to reconcile identities across systems, reducing risks of duplication.
Testing should include API compliance validation against the UK Core FHIR profiles, staging simulation of clinical and financial workflows, and failure-mode testing (e.g. API timeouts or data mismatch), ensuring robust error handling and audit logs before go‑live.
By exposing structured FHIR resources—including observations, orders, and care episodes—Sunrise enables real-time and retrospective analytics, empowering BI tools and dashboards that track clinical outcomes, cost-per-case, and trust-level performance metrics.
Sunrise 25.1 (released June‑July 2025) introduced nearly 700 enhancements—including improved user UI, mobile workflows, and modular billing components. Integrations must align with new modules such as the financial hub, updated ambulatory features, and mobile app changes to ensure compatibility and performance.