Whether you’re developing a diagnostic application, imaging workflow tool, patient-facing service, or reporting platform, 6B helps you integrate reliably with the radiology 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 local radiology workflows, NHS interoperability standards, and the security and governance requirements associated with handling clinical imaging data.
Understanding 6B’s Secondary Care RIS Integration Offering
Radiology information systems support core imaging workflows across NHS secondary care, including referrals, scheduling, patient tracking, reporting, and results distribution. Integrating with these platforms can reduce manual processes, improve access to imaging information, and enable more efficient collaboration between radiology teams and referring clinicians.
However, RIS integration can be complex due to differences in local configurations, workflow models, data structures, and vendor interfaces. Integrations must also account for patient identity, examination codes, order status, appointments, reports, and links with related systems such as PACS and electronic patient records.
6B helps digital health vendors and NHS organisations integrate with leading radiology platforms such as Magentus CRIS and Soliton RIS. Using standards including HL7 v2 and FHIR, alongside vendor-specific APIs and interfaces, we deliver secure, scalable integrations designed for real-world NHS imaging environments.
Our Secondary Care RIS Integration Process
We begin by understanding your product, target radiology systems, clinical use cases, and required data flows. During discovery, we map workflows such as imaging referrals, appointment scheduling, examination status updates, report retrieval, 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, patient matching, examination code alignment, 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 monitoring, maintenance, and ongoing optimisation to keep your integration reliable, compliant, and ready to evolve.
Estimate the Cost of Your Secondary Care RIS Integration Project
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Readiness checklist for Secondary Care RIS Integration
- Define your integration goals, such as imaging referrals, appointment scheduling, examination tracking, report retrieval, or clinical notifications
- Identify the target RIS platforms and NHS Trust environments for integration
- Document the required patient, referral, appointment, examination, status, and reporting data flows
- Confirm available integration routes, including HL7 v2, FHIR APIs, integration engines, or vendor-specific interfaces
- Prepare patient-matching, examination-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, radiology stakeholders, and system vendors