About
We connect patients and healthcare professionals through integrated, ground-breaking technology, helping people live longer, healthier lives.
Vision and purpose
We're the UK leader in connecting healthcare technology. Our innovative systems, software and services enable a patients' whole-life medical history to be safely and securely shared by healthcare professionals across all healthcare settings.
Shared access and contribution to patient records massively improves the quality, safety and effectiveness of care decisions. This means clinicians can provide better, more efficient and often safer healthcare experiences so patients can lead longer, healthier lives.
Iconic moments
From 1987 to today, our history has been one of growth and innovation, and our future looks just as exciting.
EMIS Group established in March 1987 as Egton Medical Information Systems by Dr Peter Sowerby and Dr David Stables, both GPs in Egton, North Yorkshire, and Tony Jones.
We launch our first clinical system.
Egton, our hardware, engineering and technical services part of EMIS Group, is established.
We form EMIS Group.
We’re listed on the AIM market.
We also acquire Rx Systems to provide software to community pharmacies across the UK for managing dispensing and patient's medications.
We acquire Ascribe and Digital Healthcare to provide leading software and IT services to secondary care and diabetic retinopathy.
We acquire Indigo 4 and begin providing communication and data translation tools.
We also acquire Medical Imaging Ltd to begin providing screening services for diabetic retinopathy.
We acquire Pinbell, which relaunches as Egton Digital.
We rebrand our former companies, EMIS, Ascribe, Rx Systems, Digital Healthcare and Indigo 4 into one integrated company, EMIS Health, offering ground-breaking integrated technology.
We relaunch our diabetic eye screening part of the business as Dovetail Labs.
With over 30 years of healthcare systems experience, we work with more than 10,000 healthcare organisations across the UK.
With over 30 years of healthcare systems experience, we work with more than 10,000 healthcare organisations across the UK.
Our strategic priorities
To be the leading provider of innovative healthcare technology that improves lives.
Growth
Be more relevant to our customers and sell better solutions
Customer Experience
Delight our customers with great system performance and stability
Governance & Simplification
Adopt simpler processes and manage risk effectively
People Focus
Be the IT Healthcare employer of choice through colleague support & development
Technology Transformation
Transform our technology to the next stage and partner more effectively.
Our values
We’re a committed group of people, working in expert, driven teams, and we all have a passion for improving the way healthcare is provided. We know the difference excellent technology can make and working with our customers to make longer healthier lives possible for patients is what drives and motivates us. This is how we work together…
We're transformative
We have a clear understanding of what must be done to make a real difference.
We're responsible
We act with integrity, be honest and transparent.
We're supportive
We care and encourage others so we all perform at our best.
We're collaborative
We work as one team and commit to deliver the best results.
Innovation and awards
We’re not just in the business of changing technology, we’re also changing the culture of healthcare. Our work has been widely recognised for being innovative – in fact we’re as well known for how we do things as for what we’ve actually achieved.
Our Patient Access Personal Health Record/Apple HealthKit integration was shortlisted for the 2016 Wearable Technology Show Healthcare Innovation Award.
Our diabetic retinopathy software, OptoMize, won the 2014 Building Better Healthcare Improving Patient Outcomes Award.
Our Patient Access app won the 2015 Marketing on Mobile Awards (MOMA) Mobile/Tablet Customer Facing App, Public Sector Mobile Strategy/Campaign and Grand Prix Awards for our Patient Access app.