Newsletter | February newsletter 2022

February is a short month but we have packed a lot in for you with some new events, important deadline reminders, informative articles plus a focus on Primary Care Networks and the changes that they face.

100 million Covid-19 vaccinations powered by EMIS software

We are extremely proud to say that we have now recorded over 100 million Covid-19 vaccinations in England through our Outcomes4Health software.

The software, which was delivered within an impressive eight-week timeframe by Pinnacle, a company acquired by EMIS Group in early 2020, has supported just over 86 percent of all vaccinations.

Streamline the patient recruitment process for clinical research studies with EMIS Recruit

We have now rolled out EMIS Recruit in EMIS Web.

EMIS Recruit powered by EMIS-X enables your practice staff to view clinical research studies recruiting near your practice and allows you to engage with potentially eligible patients. This integrated module within EMIS Web is provided at no additional cost and has clinical research studies already populated with the list of potentially eligible patients, making it quick and easy for you to engage with the relevant patients, get the necessary consents and generate more income for your practice.

Find out more here.

New ways of working – the redesign of traditional delivery within GP practices

In his latest article our Clinical Director Dr Edward Clode-Baker, GP, explores how the pandemic is continually reshaping traditional delivery methods in general practice and what the future may look like for patients and primary care.

You can read this insightful article in full here.

Staffordshire GP Federation recommend EMIS Web for seamless working across PCNs

For the last three years, NHS Cannock Chase CCG have been using EMIS Web to support primary care working across their federation of 26 GP practices. We spoke with Operations Manager, Jo Williams about how we've helped them to transform their service delivery, and why she wouldn’t hesitate to recommend EMIS Web for PCN working.

Read their story here.

Supporting your Primary Care Network

We're here to help you and your PCN collaborate effectively, share working practices and offer extended services. Take a look below at some of the solutions we have to offer:

EMIS Web PCN Hub: Enables flexibility and collaboration across your networks with shared access to patient records and appointment books, as well as clinical intelligence and custom alerts.
Analytics at every level: From identifying current demand and projected capacity requirements, to better understanding your population health needs, with Enterprise Search and Reports, Apex (from Edenbridge), and EMIS-X Analytics, we have all the tools you need to transform your PCN.
Power-up with partners: Working with 100+ partners we can provide a solution no matter what you need - from cloud telephony to medication review solutions, smart referrals to locum management, and everything in between.

Want to find out more?

Every PCN is different and we're keen to understand your challenges and work with you to find the best solution. Contact the team to discuss your options and find out how we can help.

Making the most of the Winter Access Fund with Apex

With APEX, we’re supporting you to derive valuable insights from your primary care data through simple to use and clearly presented dashboards. As announced last month, our acquisition of Edenbridge Healthcare is allowing us to empower you with more tools to drive decision making around service and workforce planning.

With the ability to identify current demand and projected capacity requirements within your practice or PCN, APEX could help you to make the most of the Winter Access Fund. Our solution can also help you to formulate business cases for additional WAF resource based on capacity, demand and population health insights, as well as identify levels of Winter Access Fund activity to evidence the additionality offered for reporting purposes.

Get in touch with the team to find out more.

From our blog.

We're working with Macmillan Cancer Support to help improve cancer patient care

To help support the improvement of cancer care, we have worked closely with Macmillan Cancer Support to develop a number of electronic tools and resources for healthcare professionals.

Sophia Nicola, Head of Clinical Engagement for Macmillan said: "While working with EMIS, we’ve been able to innovate, test ideas and implement real changes, which has allowed us to scale interventions to reach more people living with cancer.

Here is the full story from our DevOps Engineer, Robbie Frodsham.

How we're using DevOps to deliver new products faster than ever

Using DevOps practices is allowing us to deliver new software at a high quality and more efficiently than ever before.

Here is the full story from our DevOps Engineer, Robbie Frodsham.

Digital consent to treatment in North West London

Find out how our partner Concentric's digital consent is ensuring patients receive personalised information at an earlier stage in their care pathway and are better informed about the care they are receiving.

Read the whole article here.

Upcoming events

Rewired 2022

We are delighted to be attending Rewired 2022 and sponsoring the AI Data Stage where you can hear from our Chief Analytics Officer, Kristian Jones on day one on how analytics and AI are now at the heart of the clinical workflow.

You can also visit us on stand A27 where you can chat to the team about all the exciting things happening at EMIS.

This event hasnow passed - go to our events page to see our latest list of available events.

The EMIS NUG Annual Conference and Exhibition

The EMIS NUG Annual Conference and Exhibition will once again take place in the beautiful city of York 29 June – 1 July with an outstanding program, excellent speakers and networking opportunities.

You can find more information about EMIS NUG, the conference and early bird registration here.

We also have some new events in our series of training webinars to help you get the best from EMIS Web. Find out more and register below:

A beginner's guide to EMIS Web – Clerical Staff. Join us at 10.30 am on Wednesday 9 March.
A beginner's guide to EMIS Web – Nursing Staff. Join us at 2.00 pm on Wednesday 9 March.
EMIS Web Training Webinar: Exploring Protocols and building fundamentals. Join us at 10.30 am on Wednesday 16 March.
EMIS Web Training Webinar: Developing intelligent Protocols and Concepts. Join us at 2.00pm on Wednesday 16 March.

These events have now passed - go to our events page to see our latest list of available events.

Don't forget to sign up for PharmOutcomes Direct

Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) says it is vital that community pharmacy contractors that want to continue providing the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), confirm their choice of CPCS IT system during February 2022 at the latest. Failure to do so could impact referrals and service continuity. PharmOutcomes Direct will help you to continue to deliver this service in the same way you have always done.

Find out more and sign up here.

Did you miss the recent ProScript Connect training?

An introduction to ProScript Connect.
An overview of the Discharge Medicines Service.

If you would like to rewatch any of the sessions, the recordings can be found under the webinar tab in ProScript Connect.

EMIS Academy for PCS has now launched

Don't forget that Find out more here. has now launched for our PCS customers in Scotland. Our subscription based digital learning platform allows you to take the power of learning into your own hands by providing 24/7 access to the latest interactive training resources to enhance, optimise and transform your ways of working with our software and solutions.

Find out more here.

Product updates

Primary care

EMIS Web

We are pleased to share that our latest EMIS Web PCN based functionality, consultation write back, is currently in pilot stage. It is live in two separate PCNs and is working as expected. This functionality allows a patient to have a consultation at a different practice within a PCN and have a record of this copied and coded back into their record at their registered GP practice. We will continue to add to the pilot sites in the coming weeks and are excited to roll out this functionality later this year.

Community

EMIS Mobile

We have two releases on the horizon, both Android 6.3 and iOS 6.2 are planned for Live release in March and are currently both open for beta testing.

Additional controls have been introduced in the beta for these two releases including a checklist of tasks we expect the tester to work through and sign off to complete and approve the beta build.

Some of the new functionality you can expect to see in these releases is as follows:

Qualifier Fields for Injections
Smartphone Support (on Android only as already live on iOS)
Add Mobile Referral (on iOS)
Service improvements
Defect fixes

EMIS Web

Our 9.14 release contained 2 main features, EPS service level prescribing and the dynamic templates defect fixes. We are now working on dynamic templates history views.

Urgent and Emergency Care

Symphony

The Manchester Triage latest version v3.8 is now available.

GP Record Viewer - a new enhancement to allow you to see documents made available from the GP system is now going through NHS-D accreditation.

Emergency Care eDischarge - FHIR message is now available.

Service status updates

We've introduced a new section on the Service Status page in EMIS Now where we can add information about any third party and local issues that are affecting customers across all products and sectors, eg. the internet being down in Liverpool.