Knowledge Base
Explore the UK Clinical Platform Estate for source-linked supplier/provider matrices, EpicCare Link evidence, diagnostic platforms and an interactive regional map.
This section explains InterSystems healthcare products, their documented use and the standards around them. It separates what a product can do from what a named organisation has actually implemented.
Current Scope
The wiki combines official product and technical documentation with NHS, customer, procurement, standards-body, government and regulatory sources. It covers the UK in depth and selected international examples. The Source Register records provenance; the Evidence Matrix records the support and limits of individual claims.
Main Findings
What the Products Do
The portfolio overview is the starting point:
- TrakCare supports clinical and administrative work. Its core and optional modules explain why two customers can use the same product family for different purposes.
- IntelliCare builds on TrakCare and IRIS for Health, adding AI-assisted documentation, information retrieval and clinical/administrative workflows. Its product page separates described features from confirmed deployments and measured outcomes.
- Health Connect exchanges information between applications; HealthShare provides connected-care components such as a longitudinal record, clinical viewer and identity services (SRC-003 to SRC-005, SRC-034, SRC-035, SRC-061).
- IRIS for Health is a healthcare application/data platform. FHIR Services provides managed FHIR infrastructure, with separate pages for profiles, bulk data and transformation (SRC-002, SRC-008, SRC-050 to SRC-059).
- Laboratory management, patient engagement, care management and analytics have their own product scope. Keep their implementation evidence separate (SRC-063 to SRC-065, SRC-349).
Comparative Analysis explains these different roles and introduces sourced FHIR delivery-model comparisons. It does not rank suppliers.
Where Use Is Evidenced
The UK NHS Digital Connectivity and Interoperability Evidence overview brings national service routes together with evidence of InterSystems selection, support, implementation or use. These are different milestones; the supplier examples below retain their stated scope.
| Setting | Reading route | Main distinction |
|---|---|---|
| England | UK NHS examples, including North Tees, ROH and regional shared records | Read the dated customer evidence alongside vendor reports; an award or planned programme is not a completed rollout. |
| Scotland | InterSystems in Scotland | Board-specific TrakCare patient-management, emergency and support evidence has a different scope from national digital services. |
| Wales | InterSystems in Wales | Laboratory deployment and its national interfaces must be distinguished from ownership of national portals or a complete national rollout. |
| Northern Ireland | InterSystems in Northern Ireland | The narrow Caché/NHAIS licensing evidence is separate from the encompass/Epic care-record programme. |
| International primary/community care | TrakCare PHC evidence | Country presence, hospital use and delivery of primary/community care are separate claims. |
The country pages carry the source-level details. The separate IntelliCare page retains the completed deployment and AI evidence review.
How Information Moves
Start with the UK Healthcare Connectivity Landscape for networks, Spine and national services, patient identity, record access, referrals and diagnostic exchange across all four nations. It links to country pages and the pathology and image-exchange programmes, with current services and future delivery phases distinguished.
Standards and Interoperability explains the roles of record content, clinical codes, exchange formats, implementation rules, national services and access/safety controls. These layers work together; a FHIR endpoint alone does not establish a complete clinical workflow.
England Digital Primary Care covers DSIC and GP Connect. The four-nation comparison explains Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by function, including shared infrastructure where evidenced. Current GP Connect onboarding restrictions must be checked independently of an effective DSIC standard.
What Governs the Record
UK Healthcare Recording connects professional record duties, data protection, confidentiality, records management and clinical safety. Its linked pages hold jurisdiction and implementation details. Product certification, national-service assurance and local governance each answer different questions (SRC-241 to SRC-258).
The Executive Summary applies the wider knowledge to the particular DMICP / CORTISONE connectivity question. Its architecture is a proposed integration pattern; the TPP EHR award and InterSystems licence evidence do not establish every illustrated interface.
Evidence Caution
Product documentation supports described capability. Customer and procurement records support their stated delivery scope. Measured benefits require evaluation evidence. Use the Research Log for completed reviews and the Evidence Validation Queue for unresolved claims; a gap is not evidence of failure or non-compliance.