Digital Consultancy

What We Do

At Answer Digital, we don't just give advice; we become part of your team, acting as a critical friend to tackle your toughest technology challenges. We offer digital transformation consultancy by embedding our expert architects, engineers, analysts, and designers right into your organisation. This hands-on approach covers the entire technology journey—from defining the technical strategy and architecture to developing new capabilities in data and AI innovation, or doing the heavy lifting of full-stack software engineering to modernise old systems. Our core focus is simple: especially for clients in regulated sectors like the NHS and financial services, we turn your strategic goals into real, compliant, and scalable digital solutions that deliver a lasting, measurable impact.

Systems Integration & Interoperability

What We Do

Answer Digital's integration services focus on helping organizations unlock the value of their data by connecting complex systems and breaking down silos. Recognising that data across various systems—from health records to financial platforms—can be isolated, we design sophisticated integration solutions.

Our goal is to ensure that the integrated data is accurate and reliable, thereby allowing clients to fully leverage their information assets. Integration is critical for our work in highly regulated sectors, where robust and reliable data exchange is essential for large-scale digital programs and achieving measurable outcomes.

Our Work

We are proud to have played a key role in numerous complex projects of all sizes across the NHS, demonstrating our deep expertise in data connectivity. Our work included supporting clients such as:

• Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT) with the implementation of their Hive EPR (powered by Epic) by developing and deploying several crucial new interfaces.
• Gateshead NHS Foundation Trust, where we provided architectural design services for the new Metrocentre CDC and built a sophisticated patient matching component utilising PDS FHIR API functionality within their InterSystems IRIS engine.
• NENC ICB and Gateshead NHS Foundation Trust to design the architecture for a new Global Order Comms solution and build the necessary interfaces. We also worked specifically with NENC ICB to build interfaces for their Referral and Booking Management (RBM) process. Both projects relied on Health Connect Cloud for integration, incorporating source control during development.
• Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust by deploying our open-source e-Referral Document Integration, which directly reduces manual tasks and eases the administrative burden on clinicians.

These projects represent just a few examples of our work; we have further extensive experience on other implementations across the health sector.