[2] In June 2022 the company was acquired by Bordeaux UK Holdings II Limited, an affiliate of UnitedHealth's Optum business for a 49% premium on EMIS's closing share price.
Failures to link up medical records held by hospitals and those kept by their family doctors put patient's lives at risk, according to Prof Steve Field of the Care Quality Commission.
He says the quickest, easiest route to large scale record sharing is to put patients in the driving seat using smartphone technology.
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust has access to patients' GP records in the Urgent Care Centre run by Haverstock Healthcare in its A&E department using the EMIS Web integrated clinical IT system.
[buzzword] Tracey Grainger, Head of Digital Primary Care Development at NHS England, who manages the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund in July 2015 asked the company for assistance in obtaining "extracts of de-identified patient level data from systems that either record appointments or record consultations or in some cases both" on a monthly basis back to April 2013.
[20] The company is working with Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and Waltham Forest Clinical Commissioning Group on two pilots that will allow users of its software to see patient records on TPP's SystmOne and vice versa without any external software.
In February 2018 the company piloted EMIS Web for Pharmacy, which enabled community pharmacists to read and write to the GP patient record and to see a full history of medication and diagnostic results.