Whether you’re developing a clinical application, diagnostic platform, patient-facing service, or reporting solution, 6B helps you integrate reliably with the laboratory systems used across NHS secondary care.
Our full-lifecycle service covers discovery, technical design, development, assurance, testing, deployment, and ongoing support. We ensure your integration aligns with laboratory workflows, local Trust requirements, NHS interoperability standards, and the governance controls associated with handling sensitive diagnostic data.
Understanding 6B’s Secondary Care LIMS Integration Offering
Laboratory information management systems support critical pathology workflows across NHS secondary care, including test ordering, specimen tracking, result validation, reporting, and clinical communication. Integrating with these platforms can improve access to diagnostic information, reduce manual processes, and help clinicians make faster, better-informed decisions.
However, LIMS integration can be complex due to differences in platform capabilities, local laboratory configurations, test catalogues, coding structures, and interface standards. Integrations must also account for patient matching, order status, specimen identifiers, reference ranges, abnormal result flags, and strict information governance requirements.
6B helps digital health vendors and NHS organisations integrate with leading laboratory platforms such as Clinisys WinPath, DXC APEX, Dedalus LIMS, and Clinisys ICE. Using standards including HL7 v2 and FHIR, alongside vendor-specific APIs and interfaces, we deliver secure, scalable integrations designed for real-world NHS pathology environments.
Our Secondary Care LIMS Integration Process
We begin by understanding your product, target laboratory systems, clinical use cases, and required data flows. During discovery, we map workflows such as electronic test ordering, specimen collection, order tracking, result retrieval, diagnostic reporting, and clinical notifications.
Our specialists then design and develop the integration using the most appropriate route, including HL7 messaging, FHIR APIs, integration engines, or vendor-specific interfaces. We manage data mapping, test code alignment, patient and specimen matching, authentication, validation, and testing to ensure information is exchanged accurately and securely.
Where required, we support Trust assurance, information governance, and clinical safety activities, including DSPT, DTAC, DPIAs, and DCB0129/0160 documentation. Following go-live, we provide ongoing monitoring, maintenance, and optimisation to keep your integration reliable, compliant, and ready to evolve.
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Readiness checklist for Secondary Care LIMS Integration
- Define your integration goals, such as electronic test ordering, result retrieval, specimen tracking, reporting, or clinical notifications
- Identify the target LIMS and order communications platforms, including Clinisys WinPath, DXC APEX, Dedalus LIMS, or Clinisys ICE
- Document the required patient, order, specimen, test result, status, and reporting data flows
- Confirm available integration routes, including HL7 v2, FHIR APIs, integration engines, or vendor-specific interfaces
- Prepare patient-matching, test-code mapping, authentication, access control, consent, and audit requirements
- Gather information governance and clinical safety requirements, including DSPT, DTAC, DPIA, and DCB0129/0160 considerations
- Confirm hosting, connectivity, testing, and approval requirements with Trust IT teams, pathology stakeholders, and system vendors