Terms and conditions of membership

Background:

INTEROPen is an open collaboration of individuals, industry, standards bodies, and health and care providers, who have agreed to work together to accelerate the development and implementation of open standards for interoperability across the UK health and social care ecosystem.  
 
Activities of the INTEROPen community focus on:

  1. Coordinating and running events to promote learning and cross-sector collaboration, as well as to encourage the faster development and adoption of interoperable solutions across health and social care. These include themed full-day 'Learnathons', regional Connectathons, and need-specific Hackathons. All our events are open to all but active participation in the INTEROPen community, offering opportunities to get involved. To take part in a hackathon, we request that you first become a member of INTEROPen.
  2. Data exchanges between the different care domain systems e.g. GP, acute, community, mental health, child health, maternity, and social care. These exchanges favour structured data whenever possible and proposals for development where it is lacking.
  3. The establishment and validation, both clinical and technical, of FHIR-based profiles for the exchange of granular transactional data between systems. These standards will operate alongside other standards such as CDA, which is targeted at document exchange. We work in partnership with NHS Digital and the Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB) to establish FHIR profiles and CDA standards that are clinically fit for purpose.
  4. Defining APIs with associated trigger events to carry the data, particularly real-time requests and posts.
  5. Informing the requirements for the technical governance rules, security mechanisms, and regional architectures that will be necessary to safely exchange data in an acceptable manner. 

By becoming a member of INTEROPen you agree to be contacted by a member of the INTEROPen team relating to any of the above activities either via email, through our collaborative channel Ryver, or by one of the team via Eventbrite if you have signed up to one of our events.

If you no longer wish to be communicated in this way you can contact us via our contact form.