Is it possible to find out when the PDS patient record was last updated? This would provide us a way of knowing which patient demographics record is the latest.
We have multiple sources of patient demographics available to our system, all are currently spine connected (primary care systems) but we are likely to start working with others mostly in other care setting and these may not be.
So several fields on PDS such as contact details and address may not be the most up to date.
Also can you confirm patients pharmacy nomination is synchronised with primary care systems. EMIS IMI PFS api also contains this data and we’d like to know if these are the same.
I would like to know this also
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Hi Kevin,
Thanks for your question. Adding a way to find out when a PDS patient record was last updated is already on our product backlog. It’s a great point that this could help in determining which record is the most up-to-date, especially when working with multiple sources of patient demographics across different care settings.
I’d be happy to jump on a call to further discuss your use case and better understand the specific pain points you’re facing. This will help us ensure the solution meets your needs and aligns with your workflows. Let me know if that works for you, and I can arrange a time.
Regarding your question about pharmacy nominations, I’ll need to confirm whether the nominations in PDS are fully synchronised with primary care systems like the EMIS IMI PFS API. I’ll investigate this and follow up with a definitive answer.
Thank!
Kitty Shen
Hi Kevin,
Thanks again for your question regarding pharmacy nominations and their synchronisation between PDS and the EMIS IMI PFS API.
- Users can access the PDS FHIR API to find out the nominated pharmacy for a patient, which provides the pharmacy’s ODS code (a unique identifier).
- Based on information from the GP IT Futures documentation, it seems that the EMIS IMI PFS API is used primarily by patients, whereas GP practices use the PDS FHIR API to sync with PDS for the nominated pharmacy.
Just to confirm PDS is the source of a patient’s nomination, so if it is updated by IM1 PFS interface, that will go directly to a GP System which will write that to PDS using Hl7. the FHIR Patient access API will just write to PDS, but when the GPs sync the patient record, they will see the updated nomination from PDS.
On the date of last update, it might be useful to know we are looking at offering an event based solution so that rather than syncing with PDS when a record is opened we would be able to push out changes in real time. a consumer would be able to filter not only on the records being listened to, also which fields they are interested in knowing changes for.
Sorry for being a bit pedantic.
When you say HL7, I presume you mean HL7 v3.
In the wider NHS, HL7 v3 is not generally used and so HL7 on it’s own will generally mean HL7 v2.
apologies for my laziness yes HL7v3 though actually new GP suppliers will use HL7 FHIR v4 Healthcare worker access mode to PDS to the same effect.
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