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Timescales for the standard integration process can vary depending on the resource, skill and expertise of the Trusts organisations IT team, but estimates for each Integration Stage have been provided below. The total estimated timescale for a standard project is between 3-4 months per Trust, with the ability for multiple organisations to go through this process in parallel.
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For data to be pushed into PKB, the Trust normally requires a Trust Integration Engine (TIE) with commonly used TIE’s being Mirth, Intersystems Ensemble, Cloverleaf or Lyniate (previously Orion) Rhapsody. Data from the Trust’s EPR, pathology, PAS etc needs to be shared with the TIE so that these feeds can be pushed into PKB.
For this stage, the Trusts Integrations/IT team would be required to map the data from the TIE to the messaging structure of PKB’s HL7 APIs.
This usually takes up to 1 month to complete. PKB’s integration team will be made available to support the Trust’s IT team on how to use these APIs as and when required.
The stage is considered to be complete for each data feed:
When the work to provide the required data within the HL7 API message(s) and to send it onto PKB has been completed by the customer integration team and verified by the PKB integration team.
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