EMIS has signed two major contracts under the NHS London and Southern framework - to deliver joined-up healthcare for nearly half a million patients. The contracts will see community providers in North Somerset and South Gloucestershire switch from RiO to EMIS Web to help manage more than 50 services including dementia care, district nursing, health visiting, a community hospital and two minor injury units.
Community providers already using EMIS Web in the south of England include Bromley Healthcare, which also moved from Rio, Camden clinical commissioning group (CCG) and Barts Health NHS Trust.
Martin Bell, Director of Community, Children's and Mental Health at EMIS said: "The opening up of the London and Southern market is a fantastic opportunity to transform delivery of frontline community services. These two important contracts show that EMIS has truly arrived in this marketplace. Clinicians are excited about the potential to share information across the wider healthcare team, and managers are attracted by the improvements to efficiency we can help deliver.
"We are delighted to be working with North Somerset Community Partnership and Sirona Care and Health in South Gloucestershire to enable integration of services across health and social care. We are confident that EMIS technology can help drive up clinical standards across their patient populations."
Among other benefits, the new contracts will enable
- secure, two-way data sharing (with patient consent) between around 750 community staff and 52 local GP practices giving them access to vital, real-time patient information
- secure records access for clinicians on the move via EMIS Mobile
- Electronic records for a rapid response team, including emergency care practitioners, in South Gloucestershire
- District nurses and therapists in North Somerset to develop electronic rehabilitation and wound care plans for patients in partnership with GPs
- Clevedon Community Hospital in North Somerset to help manage inpatient beds and to support musculoskeletal multidisciplinary clinics.
Dr Andrew Appleton, Clinical Information Management and Technology Lead for South Gloucestershire CCG said: "We were very pleased when Sirona chose EMIS Web as their community system. Like most CCGs, one of our aims is to cut down on hospital readmissions and make the discharge process smoother for vulnerable elderly patients with multiple morbidities. EMIS Web will enable better health and social care planning, so that patients have the right support in place to enable them to be cared for in the community wherever possible. Everyone involved will have the information they need at the click of a button."
Thelma Howell, Director of Operations at North Somerset Community Partnership said: “Many of our clinicians were directly involved in choosing our new clinical system. They picked EMIS Web because it will enable us to achieve our vision of sharing real-time data across all the different clinicians caring for the same patient. EMIS Mobile is particularly useful, as it will enable us to deliver great healthcare even where there is no mobile signal - it's a real plus in an area like North Somerset, where we struggle with mobile network coverage."
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About North Somerset Community Partnership
NSCP (North Somerset Community Partnership) is the largest provider of community healthcare services in North Somerset.
It is an employee owned Community Interest Company. NSCP provides NHS community health services but are not an NHS organisation, it is free to compete for other contracts and provide other services to the community.
NSCP formed in October 2011 and separated from the NHS to become a social enterprise, providing not only publically funded health services, but also private healthcare services.
As a social enterprise, the organisation's goal is to run high quality services but also to make a profit, which is then reinvested back into the communities it serves to develop new services which address the needs of the community.
NSCP provides 26 community based healthcare services, free to the people of North Somerset. Around 600 employees work for NSCP who have a wide range of health and therapeutic skills.
About Sirona Care & Health
Sirona care & health is a not-for-profit social enterprise which is publically funded by the NHS and local authorities to provide community health and adult social services. It currently serves the people of Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire and surrounding areas.
About EMIS
EMIS is part of EMIS Group - the UK leader in connected healthcare software and services. EMIS systems hold over 40 million patient records and are used by nearly 6,000 healthcare organisations - from GP practices to community, child and mental health services. 53%* of GP practices in the UK use an EMIS system.
Founded by two forward-thinking GPs, EMIS helps clinicians share vital information, facilitating better, more efficient healthcare and supporting longer and healthier lives.
The company's flagship EMIS Web system enables secure shared access to a patient's whole-life electronic health record. It is the most widely-used GP clinical system in the UK.