Glossary

Glossary of common terms and abbreviations used though-out the documentation.

First of Type

The chosen recipient(s) to test the first deployment of the new capabilities.

Consumer

A system which consumes data using existing Open APIs

Provider

A system which provides data by exposing Open APIs

Personal Demographics Service

The Personal Demographics Service (PDS) is the national electronic database of NHS patient details such as name, address, date of birth and NHS Number (known as demographic information).

Spine Directory Service

Spine Directory Service (SDS) is the main information source about NHS registered users and accredited systems and services.

FHIR

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Framework. A standard for exchanging heatlthcare informtion electronically.

REST

Representational State Transfer. A method for providing interoperability between systems using HTTP.