Launch of EMIS Health brand

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EMIS Group PLC

24 June 2015

 

24 June 2015

EMIS Group plc

("EMIS Group" or "the Group")

Launch of EMIS Health brand

As indicated in our 2014 Annual Report and Accounts, there are to be branding changes for some of the operating businesses of EMIS Group to emphasise the Group's ongoing commitment to helping clinicians to join up patient care.  This rebranding includes the launch of a new, integrated single EMIS Health brand to bring all of our software businesses together. There will be no impact on EMIS Group's segmental financial reporting as a result of these changes.

The new brand "architecture" will be as follows:

EMIS Group will continue to primarily be used for shareholders and the investment community but also for centralised Group functions like recruitment, contracts and finance.  Its dedicated web-site will be www.emisgroupplc.com.

EMIS Health will, from 24 June 2015, include all our software businesses (Ascribe, Digital Healthcare, EMIS, Indigo 4 and Rx Systems) covering Primary Care, Community, Children's and Mental Health, Community Pharmacy and Secondary & Specialist Care. The new website will be www.emishealth.com.

Patient will retain its widely respected brand that attracts 18 million unique visitors a month and is now relocated to www.patient.info to facilitate international awareness.

Egton will also retain its brand as it provides products and services not only to customers across the EMIS Group but also to the retail, educational and legal markets as well as competitors in the healthcare market.

EMIS Carewill be adopted by Medical Imaging for the provision of healthcare screening later in 2015.

EMIS Group Chief Executive Chris Spencer said: "The launch of EMIS Health signals a new era in the evolution of our healthcare software business.

"It follows extensive work behind the scenes to further integrate the different parts of the business and leverage their combined power to deliver truly joined-up patient care.

"Now is the time to signal our unique capability to customers, by uniting our expertise within different sectors under a single brand." 

Enquiries:

For further information, contact:

EMIS Group plc                                                                                    Tel: [phone]

Chris Spencer, CEO

Peter Southby, CFO

www.emis-online.com

Numis Securities Limited (Nominated Adviser & Broker)               Tel: [phone]

Simon Willis/Adrian Trimmings/James Black

MHP Communications                                                                         Tel: [phone]

Reg Hoare/Giles Robinson/Charlie Barker   

NOTES FOR EDITORS

Notes to Editors

EMIS Group is the UK leader in connected healthcare software and services. Its solutions are widely used across every major UK healthcare setting from primary and community care, to high street pharmacies, secondary care and specialist services. EMIS Group helps clinicians, in over 10,000 organisations, share vital information, facilitating better, more efficient healthcare and supporting longer and healthier lives.

EMIS Group serves the following healthcare markets under the EMIS Health brand:

•      Primary and Community Care, the UK leader in clinical IT systems for GPs and commissioners. EMIS Health products, including the flagship EMIS Web, hold over 40 million patient records and are used by nearly 6,000 healthcare organisations, including community-based teams.

•      Community Pharmacy, the UK's single most used integrated community pharmacy and retail system.

•      Secondary and Specialist Care, a leading software provider to 81% of the UK's NHS Acute Trusts and Boards, focused primarily on Hospital Pharmacy, A&E (holding over 30 million patient records), Mental Health and Patient Administration Systems as well as England's leading provider of diabetic eye screening and other ophthalmology-related solutions.

These markets are also supported by other EMIS Group businesses:

•      under the Patient brand, the UK's leading independent provider of patient-centric medical and well-being information and related transactional services

•      under the Egton brand, providing specialist ICT infrastructure, software, hardware and engineering services

•      under the EMIS Care brand, providing healthcare screening programmes such as diabetic eye screening programmes

 

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