Whether you’re developing a clinical application, patient-facing platform, reporting service, or specialist digital health solution, 6B helps you integrate reliably with the integration engines used across NHS secondary care.
Our full-lifecycle service covers discovery, technical design, interface development, assurance, testing, deployment, and ongoing support. We ensure your integration aligns with local Trust architecture, NHS interoperability standards, and the security and governance requirements associated with exchanging sensitive clinical data.
We can support solutions that depend on coordinated data movement across multiple systems, helping Trusts manage routing, transformation, sequencing, and exception handling through a central integration layer. This enables new services to work effectively within complex estates without creating unnecessary point-to-point connections.
We also provide Trust integration engine support and maintenance services for NHS Trusts. Our team can help manage existing interfaces, resolve message failures, implement updates, monitor performance, and maintain integration environments as clinical systems and operational requirements evolve.
Understanding 6B’s Secondary Care TIE Integration Offering
Trust integration engines provide a central route for exchanging information between EPRs, departmental systems, diagnostic platforms, and external digital health solutions. They support the transformation, routing, validation, and monitoring of messages across complex NHS technology environments.
Integrating through a TIE can reduce the need for multiple point-to-point connections, improve data consistency, and provide a scalable way to connect with existing Trust systems. However, integration can be complex due to local interface configurations, message specifications, legacy formats, workflow requirements, and dependencies across connected platforms.
6B helps digital health vendors and NHS organisations integrate with platforms such as InterSystems, Rhapsody, Mirth, and Qvera. Using standards including HL7 v2 and FHIR, alongside APIs and locally defined interfaces, we deliver secure, maintainable integrations designed for real-world NHS environments.
Our Secondary Care TIE Integration Process
We begin by understanding your product, target Trust environments, connected systems, and required data flows. During discovery, we map message sources, destinations, formats, triggers, transformations, and acknowledgement requirements to define a clear integration approach.
Our specialists then design and develop the required interfaces, channels, routes, and data transformations using the Trust’s integration engine. We manage message mapping, validation, error handling, authentication, monitoring, and testing to ensure information is exchanged accurately, securely, and reliably.
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 resilient, compliant, and ready to evolve.
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Readiness checklist for Secondary Care TIE Integration
- Define your integration goals, such as clinical data exchange, workflow automation, system notifications, reporting, or patient record updates
- Identify the target integration engine, NHS Trust environment, and source and destination systems
- Document the required messages, data fields, triggers, transformations, acknowledgements, and error-handling workflows
- Confirm the applicable integration standards and routes, including HL7 v2, FHIR APIs, web services, or locally defined interfaces
- Prepare authentication, access control, patient-matching, encryption, monitoring, and audit requirements
- Gather information governance and clinical safety requirements, including DSPT, DTAC, DPIA, and DCB0129/0160 considerations
- Confirm hosting, connectivity, testing, deployment, and approval requirements with Trust IT teams, integration specialists, clinical stakeholders, and system vendors