Technology & Digital Health

EMIS Web is our Electronic Health Record. Used by all Liverpool GP practices, and over 60% of GP practices nationwide, this is where all of your health information is saved. Increasingly more and more additional third-party programmes integrate with and link in to EMIS, expanding the number of options and tools for clinicians.

EMIS Web

"PACO™ (Patient And Care Optimiser) was developed by the Blinx Healthcare™ team in Partnership with General Practice teams. Many of the teams we engaged with were struggling to meet patient demands for appointments, with restricted GP capacity, the increasing need for routine appointments to catch up post Covid and the time it took to identify those patients meant the surgeries were struggling to meet the needs of their patients."

Blinx has largely replaced AccuRx for our practice staff, as not only does it allow for the sending of SMS and email messages, but also integrates their Health Forms as a way of us gathering and saving information requested from patients, along with powerful searching to identify patients needing follow-up and long-term monitoring.

Blinx Healthcare - PACO for patients

At the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA) we have been assessing health and care apps, and digital health products, since 2015. An assessment involves asking questions about a health or care app, or a digital health product, to see if it meets standards in five main domains.

An App Library is a place where you can find health or care apps and digital health products that can support you with your health and wellbeing. You can read detailed information about each app or digital health product, based on tests (assessments) carried out by ORCHA. You can browse the App Library and select one or more apps for yourself. An App Library makes it easier to make sure you are downloading, or viewing the website of, the right app you want to use. We make every effort to make sure the App Library is up to date. To ensure this, all apps need to be assessed by ORCHA and updated at least once a year.

ORCHA App library

"C the Signs is a cancer prediction system that can identify patients at risk of cancer at the earliest and most curable stage of the disease.

In under 30 seconds, C the Signs can rapidly identify which cancers a patient is at risk of and recommend the most appropriate test or specialist to diagnose their cancer.

Using the latest technology, research and evidence, C the Signs enables healthcare providers to give their patients the best chance of surviving cancer."

This has recently been deployed across all of our Network practices to not only help with the early detection of cancer, but also streamline the referral process and make sure that all referred patients are seen and followed up as needed.

C the signs

dictate.it is a cloud-based speech recognition programme that allows the clinician to speak, rather than type, their notes. This speeds up their note taking, letter writing and Task creation, saving them time throughout the day. It allows dictation straight in to any programme that accepts typing including the clinical Electronic Health Record, word processors and more. 

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"Microsoft Teams is the ultimate messaging app for your organization—a workspace for real-time collaboration and communication, meetings, file and app sharing, and even the occasional emoji! All in one place, all in the open, all accessible to everyone." We use this to facilitate the smooth running of the practice, sharing SOPs, policies and more.

This platform was used for the last 5 years or so as our main method of sending SMS messages, but also for questionnaires for things like HRT, Pill, blood pressure reviews etc. Although our core practice staff now use Blinx instead, some of our colleagues such as the Primary Care Network pharmacists, physiotherapists and mental health practitioners etc. will continue to use AccuRx for the time being.