Egton Medical Information Systems

Egton Medical Information Systems, known as EMIS, is a software company that develops and supplies computer systems used by over half of all General Practices in the United Kingdom,cite news | title=EMIS signs up to NPfIT -- The main supplier of GP systems in the country is now involved in the NHS IT programme after a prolonged stand off | url=http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/Frontpage/F369A3DE9824A4AB80256FCD004662B8?OpenDocument | date=2005-03-23 | publisher=Kable's Government Computing | accessdate=2006-11-26] and also internationally, to electronically store patient notes. Like other competitor systems, data includes all details of a patients medical history, acute and repeat medication record and results of blood and radiology investigations electronically posted back to a surgery from a hospital.

History of the company

EMIS began 18 years ago in a rural dispensing practice in Egton near Whitby in North Yorkshire, where Dr Peter Sowerby wrote the software in association with co-author Dr David Stables. [cite web |title=Company Profile |url=http://www.emis-online.com/about-us/company-profile/ |publisher=EMIS] EMIS currently supplies systems to 55% of GP practices with a responsibility for over 39 million people’s patient records across 175,000 users. Turnover is over £54 million, profit has fallen for the last 2 years, and they employ over 800 people in the United Kingdom.

National Programme for IT exclusion

EMIS was not one of the major current GP computer providers initially included in the proposed National Programme for IT due to issues surrounding the lack of system choice for GPs.

The disenfranchisement of General Practitioners and the resultant political change which affected the NPFIT led to the creation of the GPSOC (General Practitioners System of Choice) programme which allowed individual GPs to choose their own system for storing electronic patient notes. At the current time EMIS are involved in the GPSOC programme.

As of 2007, of the 5000 practices using EMIS, 40% are now able to transfer notes electronically with the GP2GP electronic record transfer software to other practices using either EMIS or [http://www.inps.co.uk INPS Vision] . [cite news |title=EMIS Ahead Of Target On GP2GP Roll-Out |url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/84743.php |date=2007-10-05 |publisher=Medical News Today |accessdate=2007-10-20]

Recent Financial History, profit after tax

2003 - £2,771,538.00
2004 - £4,358,642.00 (+57% on previous year)
2005 - £3,625,340.00 (-17% on previous year)
2006 - £2,481,039.00 (-32% on previous year)

Remuneration of Directors and Employees

As of 31st December 2006, EMIS had 5 directors. Peter Sowerby, David Stables, WA Jones, Sean Riddell and Andy Whitwarn. Each director was paid between £515,000 and £530,000 for the year ended 31 December 2006. The average pay of non-directors for this period was roughly £26,400.

Expansion into Canada

As of 2005 Emis has expanded into Canada, starting out in British Columbia and working eastward. This seems to be a valuable move for Emis since Canada is now starting to switch all medical records to an electronic form.

EMIS Australia

In 2003 EMIS opened an office in Perth, Western Australia. Egton Software Services Australia employs 60 people, providing EMIS and EMIS Canada with highly skilled, offshore software development and testing resources. In January 2008 ESS Australia held its inaugural Awards Night, where James Miles was awarded Employee of the Year, colloquially known to his colleagues as "Best Boy".

Charitable Donations

The most recent charitable donations made by the company was in 2005 of £1,100 to St Peters School and Spina Bifida.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.e-mis.com Egton Medical Information Systems Ltd (EMIS)] website