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January newsletter 2023
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With Christmas in the rear-view mirror and new year's resolutions in full swing, plans for 2023 are beginning to take shape. As January comes to a close and projects begin to pick up pace again, we take a look at the latest updates across EMIS and key events to look out for in February and March.
FourteenFish launch free Planetary Health series
FourteenFish have launched a brand-new module, focusing on the impact of climate change on health. The 5-week video series, hosted by Dr Ben Rusholme and Dr Jonathan Rial, explores topics such as heatwaves, greener inhaler prescribing and air pollution, and discusses how factors such as climate change affect healthcare.
The Planetary Health series is a free module available to new and existing FourteenFish users.
To register for your free FourteenFish account and access the Planetary Health series click here.
Latest News
New Recruit studies imminent
Two new clinical trials are being added to Recruit and will imminently be looking to recruit eligible patients to take part.
Embedded within EMIS Web, Recruit uses advanced analytics and algorithms powered by EMIS-X to enable you to quickly and easily identify and contact patients within your locality who are eligible to take part in clinical trials. This tool is completely free to use, and could help to generate revenue for your practice, whilst helping to advance medical knowledge and improve patient care.
Click here to find out how to activate Recruit today
Outcomes4Health integrated into EMIS Web
You can now launch Outcomes4Health from within the Appointment Book or the Care Record in EMIS Web. The selected patient's demographic details will be carried through to Outcomes4Heath making it quicker and easier to record vaccinations.
Find more information on how the EMIS Web Outcomes4Health integration works, including screenshots here.
EMIS shortlisted for two UK Customer Satisfaction Awards
EMIS has been shortlisted for the Best Customer Satisfaction Strategy and Customer Feedback Strategy awards by The Institute of Customer Service UK. The industry-recognised awards look at organisations that have implemented successful customer service strategies. Delivering a high standard of customer experience is at the very heart of our strategy in order for us to support our customers to do what they do best – providing patient care to the UK public.
The winners will be announced in March 2023, click here to find out more about the nominations.
Partners update
How Access Elemental are managing social prescribing referrals through integration with EMIS Web
Managing the data and cases of social prescribing referrals can be difficult if you're only using paper processes or spreadsheets. Our partner, Access Elemental Social Prescribing, provide a digital social prescribing platform that centralises all this information into one place. Through integration with EMIS Web information can be shared between GPs and social prescribing organisations, making it easier to manage and track referrals.
Click here to learn how we're working together to improve patient outcomes.
Webinar: CEMBooks: the importance of situational reporting
Delivering effective emergency care can be a challenge, especially when overcrowding and bed blocking pose a significant threat to both patient and staff safety. With evidence suggesting a relationship between Emergency Department (ED) crowding and poor patient outcomes, the need to quickly highlight those departments most at-risk of overcrowding has never been more important.
In this session, we will look at the challenges facing emergency and urgent care staff and how operational tools like CEMBooks can help alleviate these common challenges.
Date: Thursday 16 February
Time: 12.00-13.00
Events
Rewired
Once again, we're looking forward to seeing lots and new and familiar faces at Rewired this year. Come and speak to us on stand C4.
Join us at the AI, Data and Analytics stage at 12.00 on Wednesday 15 March where David Byrne, ODN Manager at Cheshire and Merseyside Hepatitis ODN will be speaking about how they're using technology to help eliminate Hepatitis C.
Location: Business Design Centre, London
Date: 14-15 March
Product updates
EMIS Mobile
EMIS Mobile Windows version 6.2 is currently in beta and will be released live in February. It'll introduce new functionality such as Edit Consultations as well as some fixes for known problems and other minor usability enhancements.
EMIS Mobile iOS version 6.4 will open for beta testing early in February and will be released live later that month. It'll introduce new functionality such as Body Maps as well as some fixes for known problems and other minor usability enhancements.
Assistant
Assistant pilot is currently active in 11 GP practices in England. In the initial phase we've introduced instant messaging and direct, single sign-on access to EMIS Now, along with a preview of the new clinical views. We're actively engaging with our pilot sites to receive feedback and make improvements before rolling out to further practices soon.
Symphony
Web Viewer version 3 (included in Symphony 3.1)
- Dashboards: web-based view of departmental KPIs, providing insights over and above traditional dashboards by linking directly to patient lists, and detailed patient views.
- Patient lists and patient-centred views: web-based view of patient lists (waiting for clinician etc.) from dashboard, linking through to web-based view of all patient episode data, eNotes and access to GP record, and observation charts from web.
- NEWS2 Nursing Obs chart: shows all observations recorded and plotted on chart and can now be printed.
- eNotes: web-based entry of clinical notes.