David, Peter
This is one of my primary concerns regarding a shift to webservices.
When ArgusConnect put your question to NEHTA, the response was that both
GPs and specialists would be expected to host webservices in their
practice.
In other words, deployment and maintenance of a web server will have to
be done for every single practice that wants to embrace electronic
messaging under this model.
The precise timeframe was somewhere between 'sometime' and 'eventually'.
Let me make it clear: we support webservices. The implementation details
just need a a reality check.
David Guest wrote:
I am trying to get my head around all this webservices stuff and I guess
all will be revealed at the workshop. However, I am still not clear how
webservices will allow specialist A to get his letter to GP B using it.
It seems to me that GP B needs a webservices interface that will accept
data based on certain criteria. Since GPs are not a very technologically
advanced group they are unlikely to be running their own interface. If
others run a proxy interface for them, is there much advantage in this
over plain old email?
Also who is charged with creating the medical webservices interface
standard? Is that NEHTA? Is there a timeframe?
David
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