The specifications for the toolkit were published on the 19th Jan 2010 and each proof of concept had to be completed by the 31st Mar 2010. Suppliers were asked to clearly demonstrate how their solutions could be replicated - economically, beneficially and rapidly, at scale across the NHS.

The first consortium comprising of Graphnet Health, Oracle Ltd, Microtest and PCTI Solutions were the first of several companies to successfully demonstrate the ability of their solution to create and dispatch an electronic discharge summary which follows the Royal Colleges Discharge Summary and CfH ITK specifications.

The second consortium in which formed two projects, involving PCTI, Medisec, SRC / Bluewire, Orion Health, Bluespier and Oasis, were also successful in proving a proof of concept.

Philip Young, director at PCTI Solutions, "Discharge documents are received by the GP practice via Docman EDT and can be work-flowed around practices using Docman 7. We have found practices embrace it, not only because they receive correspondence much quicker but also because embedded data allows auto-patient matching and filing into the clinical record with minimal user intervention."

"Trusts will be able to deploy compliant ITK Dicharge Summary systems and have a working solution very quickly indeed. Not only will this give them a comprehensive discharge solution, the Toolkit standards remove the headaches normally associated with interoperability, particularly where several systems are involved. This successful outcome should fuel greater uptake of the Toolkit and encourage development of new message standards."

"PCTI have been involved in many electronic document transfer projects over the last 7 years, with progressive trusts deploying solutions without CfH's involvement. The ITK provides a standard which all trusts can confidently deploy."

For more information please call our sales team on 01977 664496 or email sales@pcti.co.uk


Article date 01/04/2010