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Hospice care

Hospice care 8

Supporting better and safer palliative care

Our specialist knowledge and expertise have gone into developing solutions to support palliative care teams.

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Supporting hospices to provide more joined-up healthcare

Death is an emotional and often difficult experience for all involved. By using technology to join-up care and share information we can help hospices allow people to make decisions about how their care is carried out, allowing them dignity in death.

We work closely with over 30 hospices across the UK, delivering the technology required to support better and safer palliative care. With our clinical experience, specialist knowledge and technical expertise, we’re helping hospice teams ensure that everyone can live well towards the end of their lives.

Helping hospice teams support patients and their families

The hospice care sector supports over 200,000 people with terminal and life-limiting illnesses in the UK each year, providing individual care plans that suit each patient’s wishes and needs. By allowing hospice teams to access relevant patient data from other organisations and sectors, EMIS Web makes it easy to provide tailored, person-centred care that provides all forms of support to patients and their families. Patients’ wishes can be recorded and viewed quickly and simply, ensuring their care proceeds in the way they wish it to.

End of life care involves often complex and sensitive discussions with patients... being able to record that information and ensuring it’s visible to the right people at the right time is crucial.

Helen Knight

Clinical and Operations Director, East Cheshire Hospice

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Meeting the needs of a diverse healthcare sector

We know that hospice care doesn't just happen in a specific place. That’s why our software supports you to deliver care in the most appropriate setting, from peoples’ homes to in-patient facilities and on a day patient basis. With EMIS X-Mobile you can access information in EMIS Web from wherever you are. We work with over 10,000 organisations so the potential for record sharing for more joined-up and informed care is huge.

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Connecting teams across care settings

We know a digitised palliative care system is key to fully meet the needs of both hospices and the wider NHS. Having more clinical information available improves patient outcomes and avoids them being admitted to hospital because of a lack of available clinical information or documented patient preferences. Using EMIS Web and EMIS X-Mobile enables hospice staff to have access to a patient’s records both on-site and when visiting them at home.

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  • System

    EMIS Web

    Deliver joined up, integrated care with our market leading clinical system.

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  • Product

    Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Connecting you to real-time patient data from any care setting.

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  • Product

    Shared Record Viewer

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Shared Record Viewer is a secure, independent browser-based portal that provides instant access to Medical Interoperability Gateway.

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    Service Discovery Locator

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    The Service Discovery Locator is an online directory which identifies patient data from organisations which are connected to the Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG).

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    Bed Management

    Requires EMIS Web

    Our Bed Management solution allows you to easily manage patient flow from admission to discharge.

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    Mayden iaptus (IAPT) Dataset

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Providing access to real-time data from psychological therapy services.

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    Detailed Care Record

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Detailed Care Record provides you real-time access to primary care records.

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    Adult Social Care Dataset

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Provides a real-time view of social care data from the Liquidlogic Adults' Social Care System

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    Document Services

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Securely, send and receive electronic documents.

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    Community, Children's and Mental Health Dataset

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Datasets from Access Rio EPR, designed to provide a more comprehensive view of a patient's medical history.

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  • Extra

    Acute Dataset

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Provided by Telelogic and giving you access to real-time data from acute services.

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    EMIS Web Journal View Datasets

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Providing access to real-time patient data, displaying a 12 month timeline of all encounters and observations from EMIS Web.

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  • Extra

    End of Life Datasets

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Providing access targeted, real-time medical information about a patient’s end of life care plan to make informed decisions.

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  • Extra

    Care Plan Datasets

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Our Care Plan Datasets support a range of complex care needs.

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    Special Patient Notes Dataset

    Requires Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG)

    Providing access to real-time Special Patient Notes data from EMIS Web.

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    EMIS-X Mobile

    Requires EMIS Web

    Access all core elements of EMIS Web quickly and securely with the EMIS-X Mobile app, enabling you to provide more informed care across your community.

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