WARNING
This guidance is under active development by NHS England and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.Notifications Events
Notifications should not be used for workflow events. Workflow events include actions for the recipient, notifications are for synchronisation and notifications.
Standards for notification events can include:
- Multicast Notification Service API Publish and receive patient-related state changes from a single centralised system.
- FHIR Cast FHIRcast synchronizes healthcare applications in real time to ensure the user acts on the same clinical information across these applications.
- FHIR Subscription Topic-Based Subscriptions Framework (Note this is a FHIR R5 description which is more mature than FHIR R4, options exist to apply this concept to earlier versions.)