Egton Medical Information Systems
Egton Medical Information Systems Limited, known as EMIS and part of EMIS Group plc, is a software company that develops and supplies computer systems used by over half of all General Practices in the United Kingdom, and also internationally, to electronically store patient notes. Like other competitor systems, data includes all details of a patient's medical history, acute and repeat medication record and results of blood and radiology investigations electronically posted back to a surgery from a hospital. As at June 2012, EMIS supplied systems to 52.2% of GP practices in the UK with a responsibility for over 50% of the cradle-to-grave electronic healthcare records. Turnover was £73.2m for 2011 (2010: £62.4m) and by June 2012 they employed circa 1,000 people in the United Kingdom.
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