MEDILOGIK EMS™ provides functionality enabling Trusts within an ICB to share an endoscopy database while running their own MEDILOGIK EMS™ environment.
For the individual Trusts and the ICB that means shared patient records, improved demand management, shared activity and planning information, more choice and better outcomes for patients, says Tim Elliott, MEDILOGIK’s Business Development Director.
The structure of the NHS is in flux once again. Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting has announced that NHS England is going to be abolished, while financial pressures are likely to trigger a consolidation at Integrated Care Boards.
Despite this disruption, the essential purpose of the NHS’ planning and commissioning bodies is unlikely to change. Integrated Care Systems were established to develop shared plans to deliver more joined-up care, standardise clinical excellence of care and better outcomes for local people.
These bodies will certainly be needed to deliver the Government’s 10 Year Health Plan and its three ‘shifts’ (from hospital to community, treatment to prevention, and analogue to digital). If anything, a smaller number of leaner ICBs could be in a better position to drive change.
One area in which change is already underway is the integration of IT systems across provider trusts. NHS England has argued that consolidating and simplifying digital infrastructure has considerable benefits.
These include reduced costs, more standardised ways of working, better data sharing leading to more complete information for clinicians, and improved choice and outcomes for patients.
Implementing MEDILOGIK EMS™ ticks all these boxes for an ICB.
MEDILOGIK EMS™: the market leader
MEDILOGIK was formed 12-years ago and has developed EMS™, a cloud-based Endoscopy Management System, which enables endoscopists to capture images, record findings and procedures generating detailed endoscopy reports that are delivered digitally to referring clinicians and primary care in minutes.
MEDILOGIK EMS™ is NEDi2.1 compliant guaranteeing that data uploaded to the National Endoscopy Database and the JAG Endoscopy Training System (JETS) meets the national standards. At March 2025 EMS uploads to NED accounted for 78% of total submissions to NEDi2.1.
MEDILOGIK EMS can be implemented rapidly, integrated with the patient management system, and accessed from anywhere in an organisation via an unrestricted user licence. The dedicated MEDILOGIK team can take a new customer contract and deliver EMS™ with appropriate integration within 12 weeks.
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MEDILOGIK EMS™ is in widespread use in the Independent Sector and Health Boards in Scotland and Wales. The MEDILOGIK EMS™ user base in England now numbers over 50 Trusts with more joining regularly.
Many trusts, one EMS
MEDILOGIK can deliver an EMS™ environment for an ICB which enables individual Trusts to access their own database integrated with different Patient Administration Systems.
Role Based Access Controls allows individual Trusts to operate as they currently do whilst sharing reports, images and metadata
This multi-Trust option delivers economies of scale for all parties with all the associated benefits to the patient and a standardisation of clinical excellence of care.
MEDILOGIK is approaching ICBs with this ground-breaking initiative.
Benefits for the system, clinicians, and patients
This multi-trust approach means endoscopy images and reports will be available across a health and care system. This creates opportunities to improve patient choice and balance demand and capacity by scheduling endoscopy across multiple units if required. The availability of patient records at ICB and Trust level can only improve clinical decision making and benefit both patients and departments alike.
Innovation that delivers
Endoscopy plays a significant role in the NHS and is a continually evolving with more than 2.5 million gastrointestinal procedures carried out in the UK each year. That number is expected to grow, as the population ages, the demand for minimally invasive procedures increases and technology advances.
Against this backdrop, endoscopists need access to the latest technology, to manage demand, deliver the best-possible patient experience, capture findings, and report procedures to the national databases set up to support accreditation and quality. This requires MEDILOGIK to be extremely responsive and agile to ensure that EMS™ is able to meet changing standards and developments with the sub-specialty.
Clinicians have long agreed the benefits of both diagnostic and screening endoscopy; the current challenge is to match resource with demand, as such the functionality in EMS™ delivers and supports that ongoing mandate to join-up care and deliver improved choice and outcomes for patients.
