Accredited Partner Products

The EMIS partner programme

EMIS has developed its partner programme to aid innovation, cultivate the future development of the electronic GP practice and improve practice efficiencies to enhance patient care.

The EMIS partner programme requires third party suppliers to be committed to interoperability and shared standards - enabling their different products to work together seamlessly, to the ultimate benefit of the practice and its patients.

EMIS is committed to working with all its partners and, where applicable, will provide customers with the level of service underpinned by contractual commitments.

For third party companies who wish to interoperate with the EMIS clinical system, or would like further details of the EMIS partner programme and the EMIS API (Application Programmer Interface), please contact partnerenquiries@e-mis.com

EMIS partners and their accredited products



Adastra Software Ltd. logo

Adastra – the leading unscheduled care system

Adastra manages episodes of patient care in GP out of hours and daytime overload, walk-in centres, urgent care front-ends to A&E, equitable access, call centres and 24 hour helplines, minor injuries units, the home, community nurse teams, and many others.

Visit www.adastra.com

Apollo Medical Systems Ltd. logo

ApolloScan – a complete document
management system

A document management system providing workflows from scanning through to electronic in trays.

ApolloScan has a full range of document handling facilities and is fully integrated with your EMIS system so you will not need to duplicate work such as dictionary maintenance, and clinical information relating to documents (such as recording a summary diagnosis taken from a discharge letter) can be done at the same time as posting documents into the clinical system.

Key features:

  • documents always available
  • excellent document workflow
  • significant reduction in paper storage space
  • reduction in staff time in filing
  • audit trail of actions on each document
  • browsable library of practice documents
  • enhanced management of patient documents.

Visit www.apollo-medical.com

Bluebay logo

BlueBay CT-TS Clinical Tools is an nGMS contract data management tool. Using BlueBayCT enables practices to capture nGMS contract data with minimum effort, as well as target patient disease groups to achieve maximum QOF points.

 Note: at the time of going to press, this product is not available to practices in Scotland.

Visit www.bluebaymedical.co.uk

Cardinal Health logo

SpidaXpert – user-friendly PC based spirometry software system

SpidaXpert is advanced spirometry software, which is simple to use and employs a state of the art multi-window, graphical interface. Up to 41 spirometry indices can be measured, previous test curves overlaid for comparison and both open and closed Flow/ Volume Loop test techniques used. An animated child incentive device and the long term trending of patient results also feature.

SpidaXpert is a comprehensive, quality assurance, interpretation and diagnostic software program for spirometry. SpidaXpert automatically assesses the quality and reproducibility of the spirometry tests according to international standards. Concise analysis and diagnosis is achieved using clear coloured graphical indicators and comprehensive textual interpretation.

SpidaXpert now allows you to transfer COPD and asthma QOF Read codes directly into EMIS systems. This gives you auditable spirometry data held within patient records, not just attached, saving valuable time and increasing practice revenue.

Visit www.cardinalhealth.com/micro

DigiTV logo

DigiTV is a public sector service that provides information and interactive services via digital TV and mobile phones. DigiTV allows patients to view, book/cancel doctors appointments and order repeat prescriptions using EMIS Access via the interactive services available with Sky TV, Cable, Freeview boxes with modems and WAP-enabled mobile phones.

Currently live in across the UK, the digital TV and mobile version of EMIS Access is available to any PCT or surgery in the UK.

Visit www.digitv.gov.uk

Egton logo

Automated Arrivals – simple touch screen
and fingerprint check in for patients

Designed exclusively for EMIS practices, Automated Arrivals is a valuable addition to any practice. Not only will it cut lengthy
queues at reception but it’ll save time too.

Using touch screen and fingerprint technology, patients can quickly and easily check themselves in for their appointment.
Within seconds, the patient's identity is verified, your EMIS system is updated, and confirmation of the patient’s appointment is displayed. It’s that simple.

Full EMIS integration means patients can check in for all appointments made with doctors, nurses or other healthcare
professionals at the practice, plus it’s compatible with branch surgeries too.

What’s more, Automated Arrivals features 26 languages, targeted patient messaging, practitioner delay messages, and
now a patient confidentiality module.
Introducing three brand new touch screen options featuring world class IBM APK technology.

Visit www.egton.net

Freedom of Speech logo

FreeSpeech is a highly effective speech recognition software solution allowing consultants to dictate referral letters and operate EMIS LV by voice. This reduces secretarial costs, improves administrative efficiency and provides a fully interoperable speech recognition solution to EMIS LV clients across the UK. Freedom of Speech provides on-site installation, one-to-one training by Dragon-certified instructors and is backed up by experienced technical support.

Visit www.freedom-speech.co.uk

GP-IT logo

EasyLabeller – probably the best label
printing software…

EasyLabeller is a low cost label printing system that prints at the press of a key. Labels are ready populated with the patient data from your clinical system. Example uses are labels for pathology, X-ray and cytology forms as well as specimen bottles. Patient appointment cards can also be printed. EasyLabeller saves time and cuts down on errors.

Appointment card printing is included for free within the main product or can be purchased as a stand-alone system. Either way, the software is sold as an unlimited user site licence for a one-off charge.

EasyLabeller works with any Microsoft Windows label printers. Brother printers are recommended due to needing no consumables other than label rolls and being able to print different sized labels with no user intervention.

Visit www.gp-it.co.uk

Graphnet logo

Using Graphnet's G-Extract, practice data is exported from within the EMIS clinical system and converted into XML for storage in the Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE). From within ICE, data can be accessed securely by healthcare professionals in the wider medical community.

Visit www.graphnethealth.com

Health eSystems Limited logo

The Health eCard – encrypted smartcard,
allowing fast record checking and downloading

Using the Health eCard, patients can carry their electronic medical record with them at all times – so it’s handy during medical emergencies and for checking record accuracy too.

The credit-card sized Health eCard, securely encrypted, provides patients with instant access to their medical record on any PC – via USB – anywhere, anytime.

The Health eCard allows medical professionals to treat patients with full knowledge and confidence, and evidence
shows that patients are more likely to follow treatment plans and experience fewer inappropriate admissions.

Digital images, such as X-rays and MRIs can be added – helping avoid repeated tests and consultations, saving costs to the PCT/ PBC.

A unique pricing model enables practices to share in the revenue of records provided to patients. The Quasar software allows practices to check records rapidly and suppress inappropriate details, i.e. third party references etc.

Visit www.healthecard.co.uk

Inchware logo

Pocket EMIS – full and immediate access to
records on the move

A modern computerised practice is totally reliant on access to its clinical database system in order to function safely and effectively. Installed on your own Microsoft Windows mobile device (PDA, netbook, laptop, etc.), Pocket EMIS provides access to your electronic patient records when you’re away from your desktop PC.

The full electronic patient record, for all patients, is always available including all your consultations, notes, medications, scans, QOF prompts and appointments. Data entry and prescription printing are included and full synchronisation with
the main system is automatic.

All the data is password protected and remains encrypted to AES 256-bit standard at all times.

“A GP needs access to clinical data as much as a surgeon needs a scalpel to operate.”
Welsh GP, user of Pocket EMIS and Business Continuity.

Note: at the time of going to press, Pocket EMIS is not available to practices in Scotland.

Visit www.inchware.com

Indigo4 logo

tQuest is an IT solution that enables primary care clinicians to send electronic requests for pathology services at the local NHS laboratory. Delivering real benefits to busy GPs, tQuest can significantly speed up the requesting and reporting process, improve data quality and reduce the number of duplicate tests and errors.

Visit www.indigo4.com

Informatica Systems logo

Contract+ is available for nGMS contract management, analysis and reporting. A prompting system provides clinicians with succinct, actionable summaries of outstanding points of action on patients whenever a patient’s notes are loaded.

Visit www.frontdesk.info

Jayex logo

X-Call and D300 will call patients to their appointments by name, number or speech. Both LED board and LCD screen options are DDA compliant and fully interoperable with LV and PCS.

Visit www.jayex.com

Jayex logo

X-touch self check-in systems – patients can notify the practice of their arrival via an IBM infrared touch screen arrivals system, fully interoperable with LV and PCS.

Visit www.jayex.com

Numed logo

Integrated ECG Systems – ECG devices that
integrate seamlessly with EMIS systems

Numed Healthcare supplies ECG devices that integrate seamlessly with EMIS LV and PCS. They file ECG reports directly into the patient medical record complete with ‘ECG Done’ Read code.

A fully integrated ECG system has many advantages for the practice. The process is much faster than manual data entry and the filed ECG reports are perfect in quality. All clinicians have immediate access to completed ECG tests and high quality print outs can be achieved at any terminal in the
practice if required.

Choose from a variety of simple to use ECG systems including CardioSoft, MAC 800 and MAC 1200 from GE Healthcare, widely regarded by Cardiologists as the finest on the market. Also still available is the popular Biolog 3000i ECG system.

Visit Numed to view the whole product range.

Visit www.numed.co.uk

OAK logo

SmartConnect – EMIS patient records
automatically displayed upon inbound calls

Designed to complement your existing telephone system, SmartConnect links up practice computers and telephones to handle all of your voice and data traffic.

When a patient calls your practice, SmartConnect intelligently matches the incoming telephone number to their patient record on your EMIS clinical system and automatically displays the patient's details on your computer screen, saving you from having to search practice records. SmartConnect enables practices to save, on average, 20 seconds on each call,
freeing-up your busy practice telephone lines and allowing you to provide enhanced services to more patients.

SmartConnect also enables: recording of telephone calls; practices to transfer calls across different sites; hot-desk facilities to follow clinicians wherever they are logged in; automated call routing options; clicking-to-dial from screen.

Visit www.oak.co.uk

PAERS logo

Patient Record Access – secure online
access to medical records for patients

"Having access to a complete picture of my record, I feel I have more control over decisions that are made."
Graeme Roper, Multiple Sclerosis sufferer

Patient Record Access allows selected patients to view their medical records over a secure internet connection. As part of EMIS Access, it’s a safe and convenient way for patients to view test results, consultation notes and medical history – from anywhere in the world.

Access to this information gives patients better knowledge of their medical condition, empowering them to become more involved in their care plan and manage their own health.

Practices using the service have reported improved health management by patients and increases in safety as patients can spot any recording errors.

Patient Record Access is provided free to EMIS practices and patients.

Visit www.emis-online.com/pr-access

Pharmacy2U logo

Medicine Manager - the electronic prescription management service - enables patients to order and receive repeat medication without visiting their surgery or pharmacy, whilst simultaneously helping busy surgeries reduce the administration involved in repeat prescription management. Repeat prescriptions are requested by telephone or via the Internet, and medication is delivered directly to the patient's home or work.

Visit www.pharmacy2u.co.uk

QuickTrace logo

LabelTrace – for pathology and address labels including appointment cards

LabelTrace allows GPs, nurses and reception staff to print labels where and when they are required with near instant response. LabelTrace is launched directly from the relevant screens in the EMIS system and has proven very easy to use. Labels can be for request forms, blood tubes, mailings, registration and appointment cards. 2009 will see a major new release including a WYSIWYG editor, emailing, forms printing
and much more.

Used by more than 3,000 GP practices across the UK, LabelTrace is inexpensive. An investment of only a few hundred pounds can save hundreds of hours of staff time per year and it works with a range of small desktop label printers.

In England and Wales, LabelTrace is supplied by our partners, Codegate Ltd., visit www.codegate.co.uk

Visit www.quicktrace.co.uk

Savience logo

APC (Automated Patient Check In)
touch screen check in system for patients

APC is an easy to use touch screen system that allows patients to check themselves in for an appointment with a GP or practice nurse. It is like having an extra receptionist at a fraction of the cost!

APC will dramatically reduce queues at the reception desk leaving staff free to focus on other more demanding tasks.

Answering a few simple questions is all it takes for a patient to check in. In normal circumstances the only information required is gender, month and date of birth. APC then finds and displays the patient’s appointment details including time and name of the nurse or doctor, the patient is also given instructions on where to sit… it couldn’t be simpler.

Lease options are also available.

Visit www.savience.com

SignTranslate logo

SignTranslate is a web based communication tool - translating over 300 medical questions into British Sign Language, and 12 foreign languages: Arabic, Bengali, French, Gujarati, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Somali, Spanish, Turkish and Urdu. The text appears on the screen in the language selected, together with an audio translation. The questions are designed to have ‘yes’ or ‘no’ responses or the patient can point at a diagram on the screen.

 SignTranslate can also provide almost instant access to a ‘live’ sign language interpreter, enabling fully interactive two-way communication between the doctor and deaf patient.

Visit www.signtranslate.com

Sullivan Cuff Software Ltd. logo

INRstar – anticoagulation decision support
software for primary care

INRstar assists healthcare professionals with the control and management of anticoagulation patients using warfarin.

Flexible and intuitive to use, INRstar consistently manages and audits warfarin treatment by applying published dosing algorithms, yet allowing full clinical control to authorised users. Used effectively, INRstar minimises workload and improves anticoagulation management, whilst reducing the number of INR tests needed to achieve good control.

INRstar Practice Edition, a stand-alone system for use in general practices and pharmacies, is fully interoperable with EMIS LV, enabling warfarin to be managed from within the EMIS system. Treatment details can be recorded within the patient clinical record reducing workload and increasing clinical efficiency.

Visit www.anticoagulation.com

Telehealth Solutions logo

Surgery Pod – patient self-service gives
more time to care

The Surgery Pod enables patients to measure their own vital signs, including weight and blood pressure, and to answer a number of clinical questionnaires via our easy to use touch screen device prior to their appointment with their GP.

Patients can also be sent to the Surgery Pod by their clinician to perform specific tests, or in the case of new patients, to perform a new patient check. All data is Read coded and posted instantly and securely into the patient record.

The information gathered by the Surgery Pod also assists in the maintenance of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) points for the surgery.

The Surgery Pod is highly configurable and can be tailoredto the individual needs of a surgery, and is also available in multiple languages.

Visit www.telehealthsolutions.co.uk/

Vitalograph logo

Vitalograph Vitalink® – practice management connectivity system

Vitalograph Vitalink provides general practice with an automatic two-way interface between the Spirotrac® Spirometry System and EMIS systems. This interface allows the user to:

  • extract a subject for testing in EMIS systems
  • automatically transfer subject demographics
    from EMIS systems to Spirotrac
  • test the subject in Spirotrac as normal
  • automatically pass resulting test data, including reports with asthma and COPD QOF data, back to EMIS systems.

Supported by the robust Vitalograph® Pneumotrac® Spirometer, Vitalink is:

  • easy to use – all spirometry related data is  administrated automatically via the interface between Spirotrac and EMIS systems
  • accurate – prevents transcription errors
  • accessible – spirometry test results are held in EMIS systems as a consultation, not as an attachment
  • convenient – reduces administrative time and effort.

Visit www.vitalograph.co.uk/

Wave Medical logo

Wave Medical provides clinical decision support content designed for GPs and nurses for use at the point-of-care. Wave Medical’s applications contain over 2,700 diseases and conditions, UK drug database with 7,500 drug names with a powerful drug interactions generator, 3,000 medical calculators and 700 medical images, all fully integrated and continually updated. Wave Medical’s applications can be accessed from a PC web browser or a wide range of Smartphones including BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Nokia and Sony Ericsson.

Visit www.wavemedical.com

Wiggly Amps logo

Patient Entry Touch Screen – patient self check in systems

With a fully integrated touch screen your patients can check in for their appointments automatically – saving receptionists time, reducing queues and relieving some of the frustrations of both patients and staff.

The Wiggly Touch Screen is available wall mounted or as a desktop, embedded computer with a high brightness 19” LCD and specially toughened touch screen glass. The unit is self-contained within a solid stainless steel case: just provide it with mains power and a network connection.

With our full support package, if you have a problem, call our helpdesk! If the problem is software related we will hopefully fix it there and then, if it is due to hardware failure we will dispatch a replacement screen immediately.

Visit www.wiggly-amps.com

Apollo Medical Systems Ltd. logo

Apollo AIR Service – send SMS messages
to patients

Apollo AIR Service is a new product that allows practices to quickly and easily send SMS (text) messages to multiple patients' mobile phones and receive their responses.

Text messaging is faster, more efficient and ecologically friendly than telephoning or writing, saving time and money.

Especially useful in reaching patients who are otherwise difficult to contact – for example, those in the 18–35 demographic.

Key features:

  • simple and easy to use interface
  • add patients manually or in bulk from search outputs
  • filter by campaign and message type etc
    history of completed campaigns for easy analysis
  • simple to edit previous campaigns for different uses
  • massive savings compared to postage costs and staff time.

Visit www.apollo-medical.com

Apollo Medical Systems Ltd. logo

SQL Suite – comprehensive audit solution for
general practice

SQL Suite is a clinical audit tool offering many advantages over MIQUEST and your clinical system search engine. Ideal for practices, PCTs or practice based commissioning clusters.

Key features:

  • up to date audit technology allows full access to recorded data
  • standard user interface and output formats across all clinical systems
  • minimal impact on clinical system performance and very fast run times
  • ridiculously easy to use
  • access to library of existing queries and new query authoring service
  • secure – individual audits can be password protected, anonymised or PID data, encrypted transmission off site where required
  • local or remote scheduling as required
  • fully automated (no user intervention) or self service via download.

Visit www.apollo-medical.com

Call Aid UK logo

Fully interoperable with EMIS LV and PCS, the CAUK LCD digital waiting room patient call system combines patient call with a panic alarm system and much more. As standard there is recorded voice announcement, receptionist public address system, disabled WC panic alarms, background music input, wait/enter indicators and outputs to induction hearing loops. It fully complies with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) and it meets the NHS patient confidentiality guidelines.

Visit www.callaiduk.com/

Dictate IT logo

Dictate IT is a one-stop source of medical transcription, digital dictation and speech recognition developed exclusively for the medical sector. The Dictate IT advanced workflow system is the result of close analysis of the complex operational needs of NHS Trusts and the medical sectors stringent requirements to meet confidentiality and security standards.

Our tailored, innovative solutions allow the NHS to refine the dictation, transcription and document management process, delivering efficiency improvements and cost savings.

Visit www.dictate.it

Easyline logo

EasyScreen – combining patient call with
information and communication

The EasyScreen LCD system will be the focal point of any patient waiting room – combining 'next patient call' messages alongside clear, concise entertainment and public service information. More flexible than an LED display, EasyScreen is a full colour, multi-media information system that integrates seamlessly with your EMIS system.

EasyScreen can display:

  • next patient call and waiting times
  • visual and audio
  • practice/ departmental information
  • public health information
  • entertainment, such as TV or DVD.

A web interface means EasyScreen can be configured and controlled securely from any enabled location, allowing screen configuration, audio, advertising, and touch screen interaction.

With 'text to speech' annunciation and output to an induction loop amplifier, EasyScreen is fully compliant with the Disability
Discrimination Act.

Visit www.easylinecomms.co.uk

Egton Software Services logo

Egton Software Services (ESS) designs and hosts GP websites that will undoubtedly enhance the services that your practice provides. Fully integrated with EMIS Access, ESS’s practice websites allow patients to book appointments, request repeat prescriptions and change their contact details online, freeing up the practice telephone line for non-internet users.

Visit www.egtonsoftware.com

GePmail logo

GePmail is an OOH links system that sends reports from your OOH service providers straight to your EMIS system via electronic reports. Comprehensive OOH service reports are sent to practices in real time, and then collected within an electronic mailbox held at the surgery.

Visit www.gepmail.co.uk

GPSS logo

PatientChase is a patient centered single click QOF program which optimises a practice's efficiency in identifying and corresponding with patients for all QOF clinical indicators.

It produces automated mail merged documents based on practices' letterheads or Microsoft Excel exports. The result is a very significant saving on QOF related resources and one letter to one patient with many conditions. Every letter sent is also read coded and imported into EMIS as a file attachment for audit purposes.

Visit www.patientchase.com

Hands-Free Computing Ltd logo

Talk for EMIS – integrated speech solution
specifically designed for medical professionals

Hands-Free Computing has combined speech recognition with the EMIS clinical system to create Talk for EMIS LV and Talk for EMIS PCS – an integrated speech solution specifically designed for medical professionals.

The product is based on market leading speech recognition software. It has 99 per cent accuracy and allows you dictation
speeds of 160wpm.

You can:

  • create referral letters
  • enter patient notes
  • enter Read codes
  • send emails
  • use the internet

… just by speaking to your PC.

The package includes voice commands for fast navigation, a clinical terms lexicon, a hand held microphone, training and support.

Talk for EMIS allows you to work faster, smarter and more accurately. It is used by medical professionals all over the world.

Visit www.hands-free.co.uk

Healthcare Communications logo

Patientxt – advanced text messaging system

Accredited since 2005, Patientxt is designed specifically for EMIS users, and is the most used text messaging system within the NHS.
Proven benefits include a reduction in DNAs, improved access, reduced admin costs and improved patient satisfaction.

Standard features:

  • automated appointment reminders
  • medication reviews
  • health campaigns (flu jabs, pandemic alerts)
  • ad-hoc messaging (cancelled clinics)
  • one and two way reply path.

Advanced features:

  • send free texts via NHSmail
  • QOF messaging with Read code reporting
  • instant support via N3
  • multi channel (text and voice)
  • carrier choice (NHSmail or O2 exclusive health messaging software).

Visit www.healthcomm.co.uk

Inchware logo

Business Continuity – full and immediate
record access during system failure

A modern computerised practice is totally reliant on access to its clinical database system in order to function safely and effectively. Installed on your own desktop PC, Business Continuity provides access to your electronic patient records when your system is unavailable, for whatever reason.

The full electronic patient record, for all patients, is always available, including all your consultations, notes, medications,
scans, QOF prompts and appointments. Data entry and prescription printing are included and full synchronisation with the main system is automatic.

All the data is password protected and remains encrypted to AES 256-bit standard at all times.

“A GP needs access to clinical data as much as a surgeon needs a scalpel to operate.”
Welsh GP, user of Business Continuity and Pocket EMIS.

Note: at the time of going to press, Business Continuity is not available to
practices in Scotland.

Visit www.inchware.com

Informatica Systems logo

FrontDesk is an easy to use appointments system that can be used as a standalone system, as well as being fully interoperable with LV and PCS. Modules can incorporate web booking, touch screen check-in, SMS reminders, touch tone booking, patient call and patient information systems.

Visit www.frontdesk.info

iPlato logo

Patient Care Messaging – GP text messaging system for reminders/ health promotion

iPLATO Patient Care Messaging is a web based system hosted within NHSnet that integrates with all major GP administration systems, allowing fully automated appointment reminders and targeted group messaging.

Begun as a means of reducing GP missed appointments within the NHS, Patient Care Messaging has since evolved into a highly effective form of wider patient communication, supporting a broad range of GP/ PCT initiatives.

Our solutions improve patient access to healthcare, deliver population-wide mobile health promotion and support people with long term conditions. Our mission is to support patients in achieving longer, healthier lives.

Visit www.iplato.net

Jayex logo

X-Touch self check-in systems – patients can notify the practice of their arrival via an IBM infrared touch screen arrivals system, fully interoperable with LV and PCS.

Patient Call Display and X-Call will call patients to their appointments by name, number or speech. Both LED board and LCD screen options are DDA compliant and fully interoperable with LV and PCS.

X-Media is a multi-media package for LCD that displays a variety of live and recorded digital media to help cut down on printed poster clutter.

Enlighten enables practices to share the cost of an arrivals, calling and information capture system with any other practice or service.

Visit www.jayex.com

Mentor logo

Mentor – immediate reference and diagnostic support as it’s needed

Mentor provides instant access to relevant evidence-based reference materials on thousands of medical subjects.

Integrated as standard within EMIS clinical systems, Mentor supports accurate diagnosis and ongoing management of patients' conditions, as well as assisting clinicians in formulating differential diagnoses.

Content is regularly updated, extensively cross-linked and carefully structured to provide fast access to:

  • immediate reference articles
  • patient information leaflets (PILS)
  • drug information leaflets (DILS)
  • plus many other essential reference tools including the BNF.

Available online – and also on smartphone devices – Mentor can be easily accessed both in and out of the surgery.

Mentor on the web is available to purchase separately by healthcare professionals and users of alternative clinical systems.

Visit www.mentor-online.com

Numed logo

Envisage – call, educate and inform together
in one system

Envisage is not just patient call, it is patient call with a difference. Using Envisage LCD technology, practices can stream health awareness information and communicate important practice messages – whilst at the same time calling patients to their
appointments.

Envisage works as a health channel for patients – broadcasting a series of professionally designed health messages to educate patients and improve awareness of topical health issues. Visit the Envisage media centre at www.envisage-media.info and view examples of the constantly updating health messages.

It doesn’t stop there. You can also design and display your own practice messages using Microsoft PowerPoint or HTML. Communicate last month’s DNA figures, or even advertise local businesses and raise revenue. Recommend your local pharmacy, a sports therapist or suggest alternative therapies such as acupuncture.

Visit www.numed.co.uk

PAERS logo

HIP – unique touch screen health information
portal for patients

Health Information Portal (HIP) is a unique touch screen kiosk that allows patients to view their own medical record – safely and securely – within the surgery waiting room.

Patients can also access authorised websites for health information, e.g. NHS Direct, Choose and Book, PCT guidelines or patient information leaflets (PILS) from www.patient.co.uk. Feedback indicates that HIP helps patients to better understand their conditions and makes them feel more in control. Linking PILS directly with their medical record means the patient is provided with appropriate information in a patient friendly format.

HIP can also help a practice increase its QOF score through the distribution of the GPAQ questionnaires, completion of which can result in up to 70 QOF points.
Biometric fingerprint authentication is included for enhanced and secure patient identification.

Visit www.egton.net/arrivals

PCTI Solutions logo

Docman 7 is a document management system that enables a practice to become paperlight, through the management of paper and electronic documents in a secure environment. Controlled access from your clinical system enables documents to be stored, tagged, viewed and distributed.

Visit www.pcti.co.uk

Plain Healthcare logo

Odyssey – rapid, safe assessments and advice

Rapid, safe assessments and advice for primary and urgent care. Odyssey clinical decision support software empowers nurses and is fast, user friendly, clinically thorough and safe; it also improves record keeping. Proven to improve the efficiency of clinical resources, Odyssey reduces risk and ultimately saves money.

Odyssey TeleAssess is used by GP out of hours services, practices and ambulance services to efficiently manage demand. It supports nurse telephone triage and the provision of up to date advice.

Odyssey FaceToFace is used by walk-in centres, polyclinics, GP-led health centres, clinics and practices staffed by varying grades of nurse. It supports efficient patient consultations in person through assessment, examination, documentation and care management plans.

Odyssey Reception is used by non-clinical staff to prioritise patient queues and identify potential emergencies, quickly and safely.

Visit www.plain.co.uk

ReminderTime Ltd. logo

Reminder Time is a two way messaging system, fully interoperable with EMIS LV and PCS. The system delivers notification to patients for approaching appointments. A message can be delivered to the patient via: SMS message, email or voice messages to a landline or a mobile. A message can be scheduled to be sent a day to a year in advance of the patient’s appointment. This allows the patient opportunity to notify the practice of their intention to attend, cancel or rearrange their appointment and ultimately reduce practice DNA’s.

Visit www.remindertime.info

Scriptswitch logo

ScriptSwitch – prescribing decision support
for healthcare professionals

ScriptSwitch provides prescribing decision support to healthcare professionals within the primary care sector. Providing detailed, locally authored patient safety information messages, drug switch recommendations and dosage optimisation information right at the point of prescribing, ScriptSwitch can aid the prescriber's decision with a simple no-nonsense information screen that appears automatically and then requires just one click to accept or decline the recommendation.

The combined effect of patient safety and a significant return on investment makes for a compelling proposition; ScriptSwitch supports clinicians to deliver a world class service, optimising prescribing to deliver better health, better value and better care for patients.

Visit www.scriptswitch.com

Soft Option Technologies Ltd logo

MJog – free appointment reminders and health campaign messages

MJog is a simple to use patient communication system that sends automated appointment reminders via text and voice synthesis that can reduce DNA rates by over 50 per cent and help you achieve access targets.

The service can also help to increase patient health awareness and improve clinic attendance via the Health Campaign Manager that will help you to achieve QOF targets, enhance patient communications with a convenient text back service and increase clinic and consultation attendance by reducing DNAs.

Offering services to suit your practice, MJog Light includes a FREE appointment reminder service with no obligation to subscribe and no fixed term contract.

Visit www.mjog.com

Sunquest Information Systems logo

ICE Desktop – test requesting, result reporting and discharge summary letters

ICE Desktop provides seamless interaction between the GP practice system and services provided by secondary care.

ICE Requesting allows the ordering of pathology, radiology and any other service the Primary Care Trust wishes to make available. ICE Reporting allows the practice based user to access the full patient result summary regardless of where the request was made. The provision of the download option allows a user to request a result message to be transmitted to the practice using the same mechanism as practice requested tests.

Additional functionality includes the ability to present and message clinical correspondence including the immediate discharge summary letter.

Visit www.sunquestinfo.com/

Total Billing Solutions logo

TBS Billing – comprehensive billing software
for GP surgeries

Sick notes, passport identity certification, travel vaccinations or rivate financial accounts – whatever your billing requirements, TBS makes it simple.

Using TBS Billing, you can say goodbye to scraps of paper and hand-written receipts by using your trusted EMIS system to record all cash, cheque and credit card payments.

Clinicians can quickly access a custom-built list of billable procedures from within the EMIS consultation mode. Front desk staff can instantly look up the total bill, print receipts or generate invoices and statements.

Visit www.totalsolutionsgroup.biz/billing/

Voice Connect Ltd. logo

Patient Partner – automated telephone
appointment booking

Ease the pain of the early morning rush.

“Using Patient Partner has provided us with many benefits. It has achieved the objective of reducing congestion at peak call times, which in turn frees up time for our receptionists to get on with other tasks. We have also found that, by making it easier to cancel appointments at any time, our DNA rate has reduced.”
Laurie Brown, Practice Manager.

Over 2.4 million patients across the UK have the access to telephone their surgery ‘around the clock’ to book, cancel, check and change appointments. The system that provides them with this level of controlled extended access is known as Patient Partner and this system will dramatically reduce call congestion and relieve stress for both staff and patients.

Note: this product is currently under development for EMIS PCS, and is due to be released shortly (June 2009).

Visit www.voice-connect.co.uk/

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CardioPerfect Workstation – a suite
of cardiopulmonary diagnostic devices

The Welch Allyn CardioPerfect™Workstation software connects seamlessly with the following devices:

  • Welch Allyn ABPM 6100S 24 hour Ambulatory blood pressure monitor
  • Welch Allyn PC-Based Resting ECG
  • Welch Allyn Resting ECG
  • Welch Allyn PC-Based Spiroperfect™  spirometer
  • Welch Allyn PC-Based Exercise Stress ECG.

All devices utilise the same software package and database, making learning and usability easier for doctors and nurses alike.

Welch Allyn CardioPerfect provides practices with a modular system that allows results to be taken and stored efficiently and directly into the EMIS system. This software gives you the ability to store, access, review, compare and edit diagnostic test data from any computer on your network.

Visit www.welchallyn.co.uk

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EnCompass – practice messaging, document
handling and scanning package

EnCompass is a practice scanning and messaging system that has been developed specifically for general practice. The software is designed as an electronic replacement for the message and visit books, but has evolved to include many useful features, including:

  • audited message book for each user
  • overdue message alerts
  • message pools and covering for absent staff
  • a highly effective panic button
  • practice intranet
  • global address book
  • integration with EMIS LV or EMIS PCS
  • full audit trail and powerful archive tools.

EnCompass scanning is the integrated document handling and scanning package available for EnCompass. The software features practice configurable workflow, our powerful reader technology, which automatically reads the text of scanned
documents to simplify processing and a practice intranet for the surgery's documents and protocols.

Visit www.wiggly-amps.com

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EMIS partner products requiring no technical accreditation

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Tiara9 is a patient administration and electronic patient record system for allied health professionals. Benefits include support of multi-professional electronic patient records, increased operational efficiency and reduced waiting times through effective appointment scheduling.

Interoperability between Tiara9 and EMIS enables practices to request a list of available therapy slots then schedule appointments directly into Tiara9.

Visit www.ethitec.com

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