More than 1,200 GPs and practice managers from 704 practices flocked to a 'sell-out' series of roadshows at 10 venues from Brighton to Bolton for a 'hands-on' demonstration of EMIS Web, the next generation system from leading healthcare software provider EMIS.
EMIS Web is set to transform patient care and NHS efficiency by allowing GPs, community nurses and hospitals to view and contribute to a patient's cradle-to-grave healthcare record through secure data-sharing in real time.
It is already being used by doctors involved in GP commissioning - the central plank of the government's recently announced plans for transforming the NHS.
Dr Jude Mahadanaarachchi, a GP commissioner in Liverpool, said: "For successful GP commissioning you need a sophisticated, integrated and reliable IT system that allows GPs across the commissioning consortia to share real-time information with clinicians in hospitals and other settings.
"EMIS Web is able to do all this. It has simplified the referral process and helped us to transform healthcare in Liverpool."
EMIS Managing Director Sean Riddell said: "The runaway success of this year's roadshows has shown there is a real appetite for EMIS Web.
"A number of practices have already asked to upgrade to the system and so far, 500 have signed up for a familiarisation service which will allow them to move smoothly over the EMIS Web when they are ready.
"This is in addition to the 1,700 GP practices and PCTs who have been streaming data into EMIS Web for some considerable time."
EMIS Web v3.0.1 is expected to receive full roll-out approval from NHS Connecting for Health this autumn. It is currently undergoing so-called 'First of Type' testing at four GP practices who are using the system live.
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About EMIS Group plc
EMIS was established in March 1987 by two GPs who identified an opportunity to develop and supply practice management software and computerise patients' electronic health records then kept on paper at GPs' surgeries.
The Group has since become the UK's leading supplier of software and related services to GP surgeries and now leads the market, with around 39 million patient records held on its platform.
The Group's latest product, EMIS Web, electronically connects GPs with other NHS professionals by enabling secure, shared, centrally hosted access to patients' cradle-to-grave electronic health records held at the Group’s data centres. The transformational system has the capability to interconnect with other NHS patient data systems to:
- save time and money by eliminating paperwork and the re-inputting of data;
- significantly reduce patient waiting times; and
- reduce the risk of prescribing and treatment errors.
EMIS is headquartered in Leeds with an overseas office in Canada. It employs 786 people, mainly in the UK. www.emis-online.com.