About This Book

This book explains how to use the National Health Service (NHS) Interoperability Toolkit (ITK). The toolkit is a set of standards and frameworks for making IT systems interoperable with the English NHS. It provides services that prescribe both how the applications talk to each other and what they communicate.

This book contains the following chapters:

• Overview

• Setting Up the ITK Switchboard

• Using the ITK Adapter Kit

For a detailed outline, see the table of contents.

The following books provide related information:

• Best Practices for Creating Productions describes best practices for organizing and developing productions.

• DevelopingProductions explains how to perform the development tasks related to creating a production.

• Configuring Productions describes how to configure the settings for productions, business hosts, and adapters. It provides details on settings not discussed in this book.