Need help with Health Information Exchange Portal Development?
Whether you're developing a new digital health product or extending an existing solution with Health Information Exchange Portal Development, 6B brings the technical expertise, healthcare insight, and experience needed to accelerate delivery.
Our HIE portals allow clinicians, care teams, and patients to access real-time health data from multiple systems — including GP records, hospital data, pathology results, imaging, and social care plans — all in one place. Built to national interoperability standards, our solutions are scalable, standards-aligned, and tailored to your region’s data-sharing priorities.
Whether you’re enabling shared care records across an ICS or connecting providers across different care settings, we provide the technical, clinical, and compliance expertise to deliver a secure, future-ready exchange platform.
Understanding Health Information Exchange
Health Information Exchange (HIE) portals play a critical role in supporting integrated care by making health data available at the point of need. These systems connect disparate EHRs and data sources to provide authorised users with a single, consolidated view of a patient’s medical history — improving safety, reducing duplication, and supporting more informed decision-making.
In the UK, HIEs align closely with Shared Care Record initiatives and NHS England’s drive toward data interoperability and citizen-centred services. HIE portals must comply with strict information governance, clinical safety, and interoperability frameworks — including the NHS Interoperability Standards, GP Connect, MESH, and FHIR-based APIs.
At 6B, we help organisations create flexible, compliant exchange portals that are aligned with these national standards while addressing local workflows, care pathways, and user needs.
Our HIE Portal Development Process
Our approach to Health Information Exchange portal development is agile, collaborative, and tailored to your ecosystem. We begin by engaging stakeholders to define technical requirements, identify priority data sets, and map out the integration landscape — from local EHRs and pathology systems to regional care record platforms.
We design your portal’s architecture and interface to reflect real-world user needs, incorporating secure login, role-based access, audit trails, and data visualisation tools. Development is carried out in compliance with NHS clinical safety standards (DCB 0129), ISO 27001, and UK GDPR.
We build and test integrations using open standards such as HL7 FHIR and implement robust authentication and messaging layers using NHS Login, MESH, and relevant API gateways. Once deployed, we provide full support with onboarding, monitoring, and change management to ensure high adoption and continued value.
Benefits of Health Information Exchange Portals
A well-designed HIE portal enhances the quality, efficiency, and safety of care. With real-time access to consolidated health data, clinicians can make more informed decisions, reduce unnecessary tests, and coordinate care more effectively. For patients, this translates into more joined-up experiences, fewer repeated conversations, and improved outcomes.
Organisations benefit from reduced administrative burden, better data governance, and alignment with national NHS digital priorities. HIE platforms also enable population health management by unlocking data insights across care settings — supporting proactive care and integrated service delivery.
6B ensures every portal we build is tailored to your region’s priorities while remaining standards-compliant, scalable, and adaptable to new data sources and care models.
