Version 3 Interoperability

Since Adastra v3.09, is has been possible to embed third-party functionality within the v3 product, enabling complementary applications to pass data seamlessly in each direction. Adastra-users have taking a keen interest in the availability of embedded clinical decision support programmes supplied by Plain Healthcare and Nightingale Teleguides along with the VisualDX diagnostic support product which is attracting particular attention from walk-in centres.

For more conventional information flows between discrete systems, Adastra has been pivotal to the development of XML messaging standards to stream outbound data to GP surgery systems. These same standards have more recently provided a template from which to develop flows with ambulance and hospital systems. Adastra v3 also features an in-built API (Application Programming Interface), allowing other system providers to work with us to “plug-in” their systems with relative ease in pursuing an integrated local health economy.

We strongly recommend that commissioning services specify their anticipated system-to-system bridging requirements whenever supplier contracts are let or renewed. Adastra can only commit from the hub end of operations and it helps to have a corresponding commitment on the part of co-suppliers at the other side of each "bridge" even if it has to be contractually induced!