Transfer of Care Emergency Care Discharge - FHIR

Use this integration to send discharge information from an emergency care provider to a GP practice.

For example, a patient attends A&E due to abdominal pain. After diagnosis and treatment the patient is discharged by an emergency care specialist who completes and sends an Emergency Care Discharge document to the patient’s GP.

This integration uses MESH to send and receive messages. It is part of a suite of Transfer of Care message specifications.

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This integration is in production.

This integration uses MESH which is a silver service, meaning it is operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year but only supported during business hours (8am to 6pm), Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays.

For more details, see service levels.

This integration uses MESH to send and receive messages.

The message payload conforms to the FHIR global standard for health care data exchange. Specifically, it conforms to FHIR STU3 and to our ITK3 Messaging Distribution standard.

This integration uses the following MESH workflow IDs:

• TOC_FHIR_EC_DISCH
• TOC_FHIR_EC_DISCH_ACK

For details of the interactions for this integration, see Transfer of Care message specifications.

For details on the general structure of the interactions, see FHIR.