UKCore Hackathon Supporting Guide

This guidance is under active development by NHS England and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.

Send Document

Type Use Cases Suggested Standards
Document Send clinical documentation between two providers and populating a document registry IHE MHD

Framework Send Document

Use cases include:

  • Transmission of an Emergency Care Summary
  • Add documents to an Electronic Document Management System
  • Populating a longitudinal patient record

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Another form of send document makes use of Event Notifications to inform the recipient that a clinical document has been created. The methods of sharing this document is covered in Sharing Clinical Documents

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In Send Document, the format of the document can also adhere to Documents in HL7 v3 this was known a Clinical Document Architecture (CDA).

Example Implementations

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