EMIS Spotlight Issue 2

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Health and care data flows across Kent and Medway Healthcare Gateway gives organisations real-time patient data helping them give better, more efficient patient care. Two-way feeds of real-time patient data supports healthcare professionals to make informed decisions - reducing admin and speeding up discharge times.

04/2023

04/2023

Identify and contact eligible patients for clinical trials with Recruit Activate for free, today Recruit, embedded within EMIS Web, uses advanced analytics and algorithms powered by EMIS-X so you can quickly and easily identify and contact patients who are eligible to take part in clinical trials within your locality. Not only does clinical research help to advance medical knowledge and improve patient care, it can also generate revenue for your practice. You’ll receive automatic payments for all eligible patients that consent to share their contact details with the research organisation. Activating Recruit only takes a few minutes - we’ve outlined the simple steps to get you started.

Mental health is a key focus in the NHS long term plan. The Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) narrows the divide between health and care services, helping them to work together and coordinate care provision. By working with more than 80 partners, Healthcare Gateway mobilises multiple datasets to provide health professionals, in any setting, access to crucial information. Healthcare Gateway’s mental health dataset gives a real-time view of the Access Rio system - giving clinicians a more comprehensive oversight of a patient’s medical history. The MIG gives access to the GP record for clinicians at the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT). This has enabled mental health teams to view the GP record alongside acute data. The two-way flow of data through the MIG allows mental health data from KMPT to be visible directly in primary care systems. Across the region more than 70,000 patient records are extracted via the MIG every month. This joined up approach lets 135 GP practices across the Kent and Medway group make informed decisions quickly - improving patient safety and supporting better management of patients in crisis situations.

Access to this level of patient data saves GPs across Kent an extraordinary amount of time, freeing up more hours to care for our patients, it’s invaluable. Accessing the MIG has become an integral part of our day-to day work, from knowing if a patient has been discharged from mental health services to when their next appointment is. The gaps are filled without the patient needing to remember the finer detail. I can now see what mental health teams are planning and clarify that plan with a patient.” Dr Tim Chan, Whitstable Medical Practice, Kent Reciprocally sharing data is joining up health and care across the region, enabling clinicians to deliver seamless patient care.

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We’ve always wanted to be more involved in research as a surgery but haven’t been able to find the time or the capacity to do this. Recruit from EMIS has given us an opportunity to offer this to our patients in an easy and convenient way.

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