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June newsletter 2022
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Our June newsletter gives you some important service updates, our latest blogs and our latest training events.
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How EMIS is assuring high standards with ISO Certifications
Everyone wants good quality software, produced by companies with the highest possible standards. For software used in the healthcare sector, this is absolutely paramount.
At EMIS, we prove our high standards in multiple ways, including meeting standards in our contracts for clinical safety, security and NHS requirements. One key way in which we prove our high standards is through ISO auditing and certification.
Real the full story in our blog post here.
Helping you to deliver Enhanced Access
With Primary Care Networks across the country preparing to submit their Enhanced Access Plans in line with the network DES deadline of 31 July 2022, we're offering our support.
Whether you're looking to embrace new data and analytics technology to make the most of your workforce, or you're seeking solutions to underpin service delivery, we can help.
We believe that technology has the potential to transform healthcare delivery, easing the administrative burden and maximising efficiencies so that you can spend more quality time focused on your patients. Every PCN is different, so get in touch with one of our team today to discuss your challenges, and we can help you to find the right solutions for your PCN.
National Advanced Service Support 2022
New advanced services are being introduced to community pharmacies in 2022. PharmOutcomes offers you a solution to record each of the new advanced services where new service templates have been developed or are in development for the following services.
- National Hypertension Case Finding Service
- National Smoking Cessation Service
- National ContraceptionService
See the full service guide here for more details.
Upcoming events
EMIS Web is a powerful system which can have a huge impact when you know how to get the most out of it. Each month we are bringing you new training webinars to help you get the best from EMIS Web. Find out more and register below:
- Document Management Overview.
Join us on Wednesday 13 July at 10.30am - Patient Access & Proxy Users Overview.
Join us on Wednesday 13 July at 2.00pm - Auditing EMIS Web.
Join us on Wednesday 20 July at 10:30am. - Sharing Data.
Join us on Wednesday 20 July at 2.00pm
Data Saves Lives strategy launched
The government has launched the Data Saves Lives strategy for health and care, which describes how we will use data and technology to improve the health and care of individuals. This makes clear their commitment to make it easier for all patients to access their GP-held information, so they can better manage their health and ultimately reduce burden on staff. General practice will be supported to increase the number of patients who have access to their health records, in a way that builds confidence ahead of a national switch-on scheduled for November 2022. Guidance, training materials and support will soon be available to help implement this change safely and efficiently.
In the meantime you can read further information about the change or contact the team if you have any questions.
Product updates
Community
EMIS Mobile
- iOS 6.2.1 was released this month and is focused on improving syncing speeds and performance.
- Android 6.3.1 is currently in beta and will be released live imminently, focused on improving syncing behaviour of images when using the Take a Photo feature by no longer automatically syncing the first three images in a consultation. This release will also provide a fix for a high priority PRB causing isolated log in issues.
Urgent and Emergency Care
Symphony - Latest Symphony patches available for both versions 3.1 and 2.39
The latest patches provide bug fixes and optimisations for Symphony, ensuring customers are on the latest version.
- Symphony Web viewer - The latest version of Symphony web viewer is on its way. This latest release provides dashboards for key department metrics, enhanced printable nursing observations view, and improved user access control.
- Windows 11 compatibility - Symphony 3.1 is compliant to run on Windows 11.
- ETriage & Symphony Integration - We're excited to announce that Symphony now supports integration with eTriage, a market-leading partner that allows patients to check themselves into Emergency Departments, as part of the 3.1 deployment.
Primary Care
EMIS Web - A series of improvements have been made to Online Consult, please see below:
- Configurable response times for each topic form. Users can set a response time of 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days or 5 days for each form. This will appear to the patient on both the Before you start page and within the form submission confirmation.
- Addition of Isle of Man location which is visible to patients on the Before you start page.
- On submission of clinical forms, in addition to NHS 111, it will also display the urgent care contact details for Isle of Man and Scotland.