EMR providers and the Long Term Plan

The complexity of patient care often requires involvement from a number of different clinical teams and departments. In particular, in the area of diabetes, over two hundred thousand people are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes every year, so with diagnosis rates rising rapidly, integration between core and specialist systems across the NHS is vital to ensure effective resource management and improved patient care. 

Until relatively recently, the NHS had relied on paper based systems to record and store information. It was a method that made information sharing challenging. The introduction of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) aimed to improve the way that information was held and made available between specialist clinical teams. 

However, the need for joined up systems and care across multiple departments has also grown, and Trusts are now implementing technology to allow systems to send and receive disparate information via interfaces.