EMIS Industry Flip book

OPENSAFELY

EMIS collaborationdelivering insights into Long Covid EMIS worked closely with the OpenSAFELY team to create a secure, trusted research environment within its cloud-based EMIS-X Analytics suite to allow the records of all 4,000 practices to be searched as one. Researchers access the data under the COPI emergency data access legislation. Initially researchers were looking for how many patient records contained a recorded code for long Covid. Long COVID is a term to describe new or persistent symptoms at least four weeks after the onset of acute COVID-19. Clinical codes to describe this phenomenon were released in November 2020 in the UK, but the researchers wanted to understand how these had been used in practice.