We specialise in helping digital health vendors — particularly overseas innovators entering the UK market — deliver successful implementations in NHS settings. Each Trust has its own infrastructure, governance pathways, and clinical priorities; 6B provides the expertise and local capability to navigate these differences and deliver integrations that work first time.
At the same time, we think strategically: every implementation is an opportunity to standardise and strengthen your product’s integration capabilities, making future deployments faster, smoother, and more interoperable.
Understanding Digital Health Implementation and Integration
Selling to the NHS is only half the battle — successful implementation is where real adoption happens. While many Trusts use the same core EPR systems, no two implementations are identical. Each has different configuration choices, local governance processes, data models, and security requirements.
For digital health innovators, especially those expanding into the UK, this variability creates risk: deployments can stall, integrations can break, and product value can be lost if implementations aren’t managed effectively.
That’s where 6B comes in. We provide a hands-on implementation and integration service designed specifically for the NHS environment. Our team understands the nuances of local IT departments, clinical workflows, interoperability standards, and governance frameworks. We work with both vendors and Trusts to localise integrations without compromising on long-term scalability.
Our Implementation and Integration Process
We deliver a structured, end-to-end service that ensures each NHS deployment is technically robust, compliant, and clinically usable:
Assessment and planning – We engage with Trust stakeholders early to understand local infrastructure, integration points, information governance requirements, and clinical workflows.
Integration delivery – Our engineers implement and configure integrations with Trust EPRs, PAS systems, and supporting platforms, using standards such as HL7, FHIR, and IHE where possible. We handle APIs, data feeds, authentication, and messaging, ensuring seamless data exchange.
Governance and assurance – We manage information governance submissions, clinical safety assessments (DCB0129/DCB0160), and NHS DTAC alignment, ensuring your product meets all local compliance requirements.
Testing and validation – We run technical, security, and user acceptance testing in collaboration with Trust teams, validating that integrations work safely and reliably in the live environment.
Continuous improvement – Every implementation feeds back into your core product. We look for opportunities to standardise and enhance integration capabilities, so that lessons learned with one Trust accelerate future deployments across others.
Benefits of Digital Health Implementation and Integration
Working with 6B helps digital health innovators deploy faster, reduce risk, and build sustainable integration capabilities for the NHS market. Benefits include:
- Faster deployments: Reduce implementation time with experienced, UK-based integration specialists.
- Local expertise: Navigate Trust-specific governance, infrastructure, and clinical requirements with confidence.
- Improved interoperability: Build reusable integration components that accelerate future implementations.
- Reduced risk: Mitigate delays and compliance challenges through expert governance and assurance support.
- Stronger adoption: Deliver smooth, reliable integrations that build trust with clinicians and IT stakeholders.
With 6B, each implementation isn’t just a one-off — it’s an investment in making your product more interoperable, scalable, and NHS-ready.
Why Choose 6B for Implementation and Integration?
We’re more than a technical supplier — we’re a partner that understands the complexity of NHS environments and the pressures digital health vendors face. Our team combines software engineers, interoperability specialists, and healthcare consultants with direct experience of deploying products into Trusts across the UK.
We’ve worked with a wide range of platforms and integration technologies, including Epic, Cerner, System C, Access Rio, as well as many other secondary care EPRs, and HL7 v2, FHIR R4, RESTful APIs, OAuth 2.0, and secure cloud hosting environments. We know how to adapt to local constraints while keeping an eye on long-term product scalability and compliance.
For overseas innovators in particular, 6B provides the on-the-ground capability needed to succeed in the UK healthcare market — bridging the gap between product ambition and NHS operational reality.
Digital Health Implementation and Integration Case Studies
Explore how we’ve partnered with health and care organisations to deliver digital health implementation and integration solutions that solve complex challenges and drive measurable impact.
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Transforming Digital Access for The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
UK Health Security Agency
Digitally Transforming Post-Discharge Processes for UKHSA
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB
Transforming GP Data Integration for Population Health Management
Better
Enabling Seamless Integration Between Better and SystmOne
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Integrating GMCA’s Early Years Service with EMIS and SystmOne
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Powering Research Innovation at University Hospital Southampton with Smarter Metadata Tools
Readiness checklist for Digital Health Implementation and Integration
- Identify target NHS Trust environments, including EPR/PAS systems (Epic, Cerner, System C, Access Rio, etc.), versions, modules in scope, and local configuration details
- Map integration requirements: APIs, HL7/FHIR feeds, authentication methods, messaging standards, and data flows with architecture diagrams where available
- Confirm local governance processes covering IG submissions, DPIAs, DTAC evidence, clinical safety (DCB0129/DCB0160), and Trust CAB approval routes
- Provide secure connectivity details such as HSCN access, VPN endpoints, firewall rules, IP allowlists, and identity management arrangements (RBAC, SSO, OAuth)
- Share test and validation requirements: UAT scenarios, technical assurance steps, performance benchmarks, and clinical workflow sign-off criteria
- Document operational dependencies including Trust-side systems, third-party vendors, hosting arrangements, and change management processes
- Define deployment logistics: environments (dev, test, live), release windows, rollback procedures, and Trust IT resourcing commitments
- Establish reporting and communication lines: named Trust contacts, escalation paths, meeting cadences, and documentation repositories
- Capture opportunities for standardisation and reusability of integrations, ensuring lessons learned feed into the vendor’s core product capabilities
Speak To Our Digital Health Implementation and Integration Experts
Whether you're developing a new digital health product or extending an existing solution with Digital Health Implementation and integration, 6B brings the technical expertise, healthcare insight, and experience needed to accelerate delivery.
