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PNB – Portuguese National Broker
Central event-oriented health integration broker (about 500,000 messages/day) for exchanges between SNS institutions, with other ministries via iAP and with other countries via the NCPeH.
- Acronym
- PNB
- Type
- Platform
- Level
- National
- Area
- Health
- Owner
- Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde, E.P.E.
- Used by
- other bodies
- In service since
- Not recorded
- Evidence
- Checked against sources
- Interface types
- HL7 FHIR, other
- Would the model apply?
- Not yet analysed
Connections
7 documented links. Select any entry to open its page.
Connects to2
- A minha saúde na Europa / MyHealth@EU – NCP PT (ponto de contacto nacional)Cross-border exchanges routed via the national contact point
- Plataforma de Interoperabilidade da Administração PúblicaInter-ministry health data exchanges go through iAP · Real-time API
Run by1
- Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde, E.P.E.SPMS central broker
Connected from4
- Atestado Médico para a Carta de ConduçãoPNB_ACC interface for driving-licence medical certificates · Real-time API
- LIGHt – Local Interoperability Gateway for HealthcareLIGHt sends data to the central broker via HL7 FHIR · Real-time API
- Prescrição Eletrónica Médica (incl. Receita Sem Papel)PNB_PEM and PNB_PEMP (private prescribers) interfaces · Real-time API
- VACINAS – Plataforma de registo e gestão da vacinaçãoPNB_VACINAS interface for vaccination records · Real-time API
What the owner signs for IT
Buyer in Portal BASE: Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde, EPE. This is everything the owner signed for IT, not the cost of this entry alone.
€699.9MIT contracts, 2012 to October 2026
€93.4Ma year on average, 2022 to 2025
2,721IT contracts signed
By signing year
2012Highest: 2025, €118.5M
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Contract value by the year it was signed, not yearly spending. 2026 runs to 25 October.