EMIS Group acquires healthcare blockchain business
Dovetail Lab creates software designed to give patients full control of their healthcare records.
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Another View: Of conference season
It must be conference season: Neil Paul has attended three separate meetings in almost as many weeks. As our GP columnist reflects on each – the EMIS National User Group, a panel on entrepreneurship in healthcare IT, and a BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group meeting – he sees causes for both optimism and concern.
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EMIS partners up with charity to provide better care for rough sleepers
Pathway partnered up with supplier EMIS Health to create the screening template, which is now available free of charge to health organisations using the EMIS Web clinical system in London.
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Another view: Of the importance of EPR training
In general practice, staff use electronic patient records every day. So, our GP columnist wonders, why don’t we add creating a standard training programme or competency framework to our to do lists?
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Industry news in brief
Our latest industry round-up features news that IMMJ Systems has been given a place on the UK Government’s G-Cloud 10 Framework.
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Emis Health is the supplier ‘most receptive to interoperabilty’, new report suggests
Compiled by Utah-based healthcare research agency KLAS, the NHS Interoperability 2018 report assesses how easily NHS organisations are able to receive data from other bodies.
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Users left disgruntled after Patient Access website and app go down
Neil Bennett, service director, Live Services at NHS Digital, confirmed that the Patient Access service was ‘unavailable’ between 3.30pm on 30 May and 2.30pm on 31 May.
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Emis and Elemental to link up GPs to social prescribing data
Emis Health has partnered with Elemental Software in an effort to connect primary care to social prescribing data, with the aim of relieving pressure on GP surgeries and encouraging patients to take better control of their own health.
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Emis loses preferred vendor status in Wales following procurement review
Emis has announced it has lost preferred vendor status for GP practices in Wales which means 195 practices will now have to be transitioned to a new supplier.
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Emis faces multi-million pound penalty for GPSoC breach
Emis has notified investors it expects to incur penalties “in the order of upper single digits of millions of pounds” after failing to meet unspecified contractual requirements in its GP Systems of Choice contract governing the supply of electronic patient record systems.
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