E-Health Insider Sponsored Feature: EMIS

A vote of confidence in healthcare IT

As the pre-election temperature rises, delivering more NHS services more efficiently in primary care is emerging as a common theme.

Sean Riddell, managing director of EMIS, crunches the numbers with some of the NHS trusts that are already realising the benefits of patient-centred care delivered closer to home. He also explores the vital role of information technology in enabling new services.

Another predominant pre-election theme is how innovative online services for patients can save the NHS money and empower people to take greater control of their own health.

The EMIS Access online service is already showing what can be done by giving patients control of the appointment book, while www.patient.co.uk is demonstrating how patients and professionals alike can be given reliable health information via the internet.

For more information about EMIS and its next generation system EMIS Web, visit www.emis-online.com.

Service redesign: crunching the numbers

As the NHS continues to shift services from hospitals to primary care trusts, Sean Riddell explores the cost and care benefits of delivering more services closer to patients’ homes. As he explains – with the help of some hard facts and figures – information technology is a vital enabler of this change in service delivery.

Patient power: saving money with online appointments

Putting patients in control of the appointments book is saving the NHS around £1.3m a year, according to the latest analysis of EMIS Access. A detailed breakdown shows there are both time and cost savings for the NHS in the first and increasingly popular online GP appointment-booking service.

Patient power: raising standards in online health information

Improving patients’ ability to manage minor ailments could save the NHS £10 billion, research has shown. But how can patients find reliable health information on the internet? EMIS-backed www.patient.co.uk - one of the first sites to be awarded the new Information Standard quality mark - is leading the way.


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