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Building a healthier future together

We’re working collaboratively with the pharmaceutical industry to drive positive change at scale and pace across the healthcare landscape.

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Your healthcare technology partner

The pharmaceutical industry plays a vital role in the development of cutting edge treatments that improve and save the lives of millions of people.

Over the next decade, the government aims to turn the UK life science ecosystem into a global centre of excellence to help the NHS address pressing health challenges. Collectively, the healthcare technology sector, NHS, research and life sciences industries have the ability to work together to drive positive change at scale and pace. 

We believe that through collaboration we can create positive change in healthcare, and help to bridge the gap between patients, healthcare clinicians and researchers. Through innovative healthcare technology, we’re uniquely positioned to support ethical research and the effective uptake of new treatments and care pathways to improve lives.

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Why pharmaceutical companies partner with us

We have over 35 years of experience delivering innovative digital solutions to healthcare organisations and patients. This means that we understand the complexity and importance of healthcare data and technology as well as the potential for creating change at scale.

  • Data insights at speed and scale

    As trusted custodians of more than 40 million patient records, we have a long history of safely and securely managing clinical data, and can support GDPR compliant, secure data analysis and complex queries at speed and scale.

  • Enabling fast, efficient and diverse recruitment for clinical trials

    Accessed via our market leading clinical system for primary care, we’re empowering clinicians to easily identify and connect with eligible patients that meet the criteria for clinical research studies.

  • Experts in patient engagement

    With 18 million registered users of Patient Access, the UKs #1 independent patient services app, we’re able to directly communicate with patients and provide them with support to manage their conditions.

  • Enabling better, safer, patient care

    Working with 10,000 organisations across every major healthcare setting means that we can support the deployment of innovative solutions at scale and pace, by embedding the latest evidence and decision support directly into our clinical systems.

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Catalysing change in primary care

We’re proud to have sponsored the 2024 report 'Harnessing primary care data for clinical research and trial recruitment' from Newmarket Strategy. This paper explores how primary care data can transform clinical research and improve patient outcomes. It features expert insights, novel research, and recommendations to drive progress in the sector.

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Life sciences

Our solutions

Underpinned by our powerful data analytics platform, EMIS-X Analytics, our solutions harness the power of the rich healthcare data stored in clinical systems to drive improvements and enhance patient outcomes.

  • Recruit

    Find out how our Recruit platform is enabling primary care teams to source quality clinical trial candidates at speed and scale.

    Clinical trial recruitment
  • Pathway

    Find out how our Pathway solution is supporting proactive healthcare interventions with powerful data insights.

    Proactive care with Pathway
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Our ethical principles

We have decades of experience in handling data in the safest and most ethical way, and are committed to the highest clinical standards in every product and service in every healthcare setting. Our ethical principles guide us in ensuring our collaborations with the life sciences industry are focused on providing positive, ethical solutions that improve clinical safety and patient outcomes.

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News & insights

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Products

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    Explorer

    Explorer delivers self-service business intelligence by enabling you to query, explore and analyse data to optimise healthcare delivery.

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    Recruit

    For life sciences professionals

    Source quality clinical trial candidates at speed with Recruit, embedded in our primary care clinical system.

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    Pathway

    For life sciences professionals

    Identify groups of at-risk patients from within primary care data for proactive healthcare interventions.

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    Recruit

    For healthcare professionals

    Requires EMIS-X

    Enabling primary care teams to easily identify and invite patients to take part in clinical trials.

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    Pathway

    For healthcare professionals

    Requires EMIS-X

    Easily identify at-risk patient groups for proactive healthcare interventions through referral onto the appropriate care pathway.

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    Feasibility service

    For research and life sciences professionals

    Requires Recruit

    Supporting smarter site selection for your clinical trial

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    Healthcare record sharing

    For research and life sciences professionals

    Requires Recruit

    Streamlining healthcare record sharing to accelerate clinical trial recruitment

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    Real-world evidence

    For research and life sciences professionals

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    Instant, compliant access to UK primary care data to accelerate your research.

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