ATMPS's Hataali blockchain platform has been tested with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust’s system interface, demonstrating the data interoperability.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) hosts the Midlands and Wales Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre (MW-ATTC), which is a consortium of NHS, academic and industry partners. The MW-ATTC, supported by Innovate UK, is one of three centres in the ATTC network across the UK working together to accelerate ATMP delivery in the NHS.
The informatics work, led by UHB within the MW-ATTC, proposes one NHS platform via which ATMP manufacturers could liaise with hospitals. The integration of cell orchestration platforms with UHB’s system will allow visibility of samples and treatments.
Hataali complies with GDPR requirements and provides an audit trail which can be examined by regulators.
The MW-ATTC project, led by UHB, aims to be an example for the advanced therapy community tracking system to be rolled-out on a national scale.
“For the Midlands and Wales Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre project, we have been developing a prototype IT system that can record scheduling and ordering data for ATMP treatments. The system offers a number of integration points (APIs) to any Cell Orchestration Platform such that the platform can communicate the relevant data to the prototype NHS IT system.
"We have been delighted to have ATMPS as a blockchain partner working collaboratively with our NHS Health Informatics team, to successfully test all those integration points. This is strong proof of concept showing that Hataali blockchain platform can successfully integrate with an NHS system using 'standards' based integration points.”, Professor Philip Newsome, Director of Midlands and Wales Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre, University of Birmingham.
“What’s most impressive about this partnership is that we’ve been able to work together to implement this prototype platform at a time where COVID-19 is putting immense pressure on IT resources,” said John Attwood, Health Informatics Programme Manager at UHB.
