Written question asked by Lord Grayling (Conservative) on Monday, 20 October 2003, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 30 October 2003. It was answered by Lord Hutton of Furness (Labour) on Thursday, 30 October 2003 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to publish the interoperability standards for the new integrated care record services.

Answer: Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to publish the interoperability standards for the new integrated care record services. [133920] Mr. Hutton: The interoperability standards for the integrated care records service (JCRS) are part of an evolutionary process that began publicly with the output based specification (OBS), available at www. doh.gov.uk/ipu/programme/index.htm. The OBS requires conformance to various standards, for example, Health Language 7 (HL7) Version 3 for interoperability and SNOMED for clinical terminology. In addition, specific interchange standards, for example, those required to enable an out-patient appointment to be booked electronically, are being developed in conjunction with HL7 (www.hl7.org.uk) and the United Kingdom information technology trade representative body, Intellect (www.intellectuk.org). JCRS is also taking account of the interoperability standards published in the electronic Government interoperability framework (www.egif.gov.uk) by the Office of the e-Envoy.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 133920; 412 c349W;412 c357W
Session: 2002-03
Subjects: Databases ICT NHS Medical records Standards NHS care records service
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk