UK National Health Service (NHS) National Programme for Information Technology uses ebXML Messaging

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

I'm pleased to announce that a new case study was posted at the ebXML.org Web site:


http://www.ebxml.org/case_studies/NHS-ebMSG-casestudy-041206.pdf 

 
The UK's National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) is the world's largest civil IT project. A central component of the
NHS Care Records Service is the Transactional Messaging Service (TMS) Spine using the ebXML Messaging Service OASIS Standard. 

The Transaction and Messaging Service provides the communications infrastructure for the National Programme. It serves to
interconnect regional network clusters managed by Local Service Providers (LSPs) and national services such as systems for
electronic booking and transmission of prescriptions. The technology framework used for TMS is based on a large number of advanced
technical specifications and standards. This includes the ebXML Messaging Service OASIS Standard. Within the TMS Spine, ebXML is
used to provide reliable messaging functionality. National services such as the Electronic Booking Service (Choose and Book) and
Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions are accessed using pairs of XML request and response documents. These documents are
transported within the NHS network as ebXML messages. 

With an anticipated yearly volume of over 5.000.000.000 message by 2010, TMS is likely to be among the largest messaging systems in
production in the world. For this very reason, TMS is also likely to be among the larger systems worldwide that will use the ebXML
Messaging OASIS Standard. 

Sincere congratulations to everyone involved in this very significant project!

Pim van der Eijk
OASIS European Representative