June newsletter 2023

As we approach the halfway point of 2023, we take a look at Lord O'Shaughnessy's recent recommendations for clinical trials in the UK and how our Recruit solution is supporting Grove Medical Centre to engage their patients in clinical trial recruitment. We also bring news for our customers in Wales on system procurement.

Reflecting on the Lord O'Shaughnessy review

Commissioned by UK government ministers, the recently published Lord O’Shaughnessy review proposed a number of recommendations on how to improve the environment for running commercial clinical trials in the UK.

In her recent blog Chief Medical Officer for Data and Research, Dr Lucy Mackillop, reflects on these recommendations, and the impact that primary care could have on transforming clinical trial representation.

Read it here.

Is your practice supporting clinical research?

The more healthcare continues to evolve, the more patient outcomes continue to improve. We’re making it simple for practices in England to support clinical research with our completely free Recruit tool in EMIS Web.

Recruit uses advanced analytics and algorithms powered by EMIS-X to enable practice teams to identify and contact potentially eligible patients for clinical trials. When a trial is recruiting in your area, we’ll get in touch to let you know. From there, you can simply access the Recruit platform from within EMIS Web, open the generated list of potentially eligible candidates, review as desired and initiate an SMS.

We’ve got more trials coming to the platform soon, so activate for free today to get involved. Search KB0076213 on EMIS Now, or click here.

Meet the Surrey practice empowering patients to take part in clinical research

The Grove Medical Centre in Egham, Surrey is committed to enhancing healthcare by providing their patients with the opportunity to participate in clinical trials. To achieve this they have fully embraced our Recruit tool, which is free to use in EMIS Web. We spoke with Lesley Cushen, Operations Manager at The Grove, about her team's experience using Recruit.

For customers in Wales

System procurement for GP Practices in Wales

As part of the procurement process for GP practices in Wales associated with Digital Health Care Wales (DHCW), we'll be running four webinars. Each of the two-hour sessions will provide GP Practices with the opportunity to find out about the core offerings within EMIS Web, this will include additional services and future developments of the software.

To book a place on your chosen session click the relevant link below.

Optimising patient care with EMIS Web sessions

Tuesday 4 July - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Wednesday 12 July - 10:00am to 12:00pm

Friday 21 July - 12:30pm to 2:30pm

Thursday 27 July - 3:30pm to 5:30pm

With a packed agenda, you’ll leave the session understanding how EMIS Web can support your practice, your patients, and your cluster.

Partners update

Introducing Joy

We’ve partnered with Joy, a social prescribing platform that manages the workflow and case management associated with social prescribing referrals, helping you connect your patients to local services – seamlessly.

1 in 5 GP appointments take place with patients whose health and wellbeing challenges cannot be addressed with traditional clinical pathways. Joy helps your team easily identify and connect these patients to non-clinical services, like support groups, within the local community.

Click the link to find out more.

Healum improves health outcomes for Type 2 Diabetes

Recognising key challenges facing primary care; where the prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes is high, yet the self-management of the condition is poor. Healum identified the need for a scalable solution for multidisciplinary teams within primary care to support and manage their patients remotely.

In a recent randomised control trial, in collaboration with Vernova Healthcare, Healum evaluated the effectiveness of personalised care planning software in tandem with a patient-facing app, to motivate, monitor and support patients with diabetes.

Through integration with EMIS Web, patient information was seamlessly shared remotely between healthcare teams and the patient record, whilst also allowing for information, such as test results, to be distributed directly to the patient.

“People had regular prompts on a day-to-day basis in relation to things they had agreed to be doing… and what we’ve shown here is that the app is effective in terms of helping people to be able to make choices that are beneficial to them in terms of glucose level.”

Read the full story here.

How eKare implemented a Wound Management Digital system within Wye Valley NHS Trust

In 2020 Wye Valley NHS Trust Lower Limb Service (LLS) became a first tranche implementation site of the National Wound Care Strategy (NWCSP), an NHS England backed programme to improve the care of wounds. A requirement of this programme was to onboard a Wound Management Digital system (WMDS). Wye Valley NHS LLS partnered with eKare inSight. 

By working with eKare, Wye Valley NHS LLS have been able to capture data which has helped enable accessible, meaningful data and reporting. Helping the Wye Valley team to better engage with patients, support clinical decision making and enable quality improvement.

Read the full case study here.

Events

FourteenFish Webinar: simplifying appraisals with FourteenFish

Wednesday 12 July 2023
12:00pm to 1:00pm

Join us to learn more about our FourteenFish offering for acute care. This session will demonstrate the many benefits of the platform – namely providing a cost-effective, intuitive experience that is easy to use and can help to improve appraisal compliance.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

How the platform works
How to sign up and trial for free
About the cost structure

To register your place at the webinar click here.

Products update

Symphony

Symphony customers can now discuss the solution and related topics with each other and the EMIS team via the Symphony User Group forum. Accessed through the Community tab on EMIS Now, it provides an opportunity for existing customers who attend or wish to attend the Symphony User Groups to get involved with the evolution of the software.

Log in to EMIS Now and hit the subscribe button to keep up to date with the latest conversations around the market-leading clinical system for urgent and emergency care.

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