eRedbook First with NEMS

eRedbook is the first app to go live with the NHS National Events Management Service providing NHS birth, screening and immunisation data direct to new parents

The eRedbook team worked alongside NHS Digital and NHS England to become the first app approved to receive messages directly from the new NHS National Events Management Service (NEMS).

The NEMS has been designed to allow healthcare professionals to share key health event information without knowing who subsequently needs to receive that information. Healthcare systems which send information are known as publishers and send the information as event messages to NEMS e.g. GP systems.

Healthcare systems that receive the information are known as subscribers e.g. eRedbook. Subscriber systems place a request to the NEMS to receive specific event messages for specific patients. When a message arrives into the NEMS that meets these criteria, it is sent to them by the NEMS.

NEMS was developed to ensure that all Health Professionals involved in the care of children have appropriate access to information such as which preventive interventions a child has received. This improves the speed of diagnosis and treatment, but it can also benefit parents directly. As the first app approved to subscribe to NEMS, eRedbook users can now get key health events such as birth details, newborn screening results and immunisations delivered directly to their eRedbook, no more paper records to lose!

Sitekit, who undertook the development work to sign eRedbook up to NEMS with NHS Digital earlier in the year, have now gone live with NEMS in North East London and will work to roll this out to the rest of London imminently.

This project is a great example of how interoperability of health data together with innovative digital personal health records like eRedbook can directly benefits parents. The scope of the National Events Management Service will evolve over time and Sitekit are committed to working in conjunction with the NHS to make possible the sharing of NHS held clinical information directly with parents via eRedbook

Jill DeBene at Sitekit said:

“We are delighted to be the first app using NHS NEMs. Integrating NHS NEMS into eRedbook consolidates our partnership with the NHS on eRedbook and provides a streamlined user experience for parents providing rapid access to their child’s health information. As we roll this development out across London, all parents will benefit.”

 

Martin Dennys, Programme Manager for Digital Child Health at NHS Digital said:

“Child health information is currently held across a number of different information systems across the UK.

“The National Events Management Service supports the communication between these systems and is an important milestone in the journey to deliver more personalised, responsive and integrated services to families and children.

“We now look forward to supporting suppliers in rolling the service out more widely.”

The National Events Management Service pushes out automated notifications of births, changes of address and GP practices to make sure that care services know where every child is.