A Go / No Go conference call will be held with InPS today to confirm the start of the rollout of DLM441 and KIS. Good feedback has been received from pilot practices regarding DLM441 and KIS and no major issues have been reported since the upgrades last week (24/06).
If confirmed, DLM441 will be on general release as soon as possible and boards will be able to start the KIS upgrade process immediately after this software is installed.
It has been confirmed that all EMIS practices are now live with KIS as part of the Release B rollout. Figures on usage will be available later in June.
Updated: 18 June 2013
Due to issues found in pilot testing Vision have made fixes as part of the DLM441 release and this is on track for release to the pilot practices from tomorrow (19 June). It has been confirmed that this release will be available for general release by the end of June.
This is subject to the final testing that will be carried out as soon as possible by the pilot practices.
The latest KIS Newsletter has been published and a copy of this has been circulated to main User Groups and is available to download from the ECS website:
Any feedabck or queries please contact Jonathan Cameron, KIS Programme Manager.
A document has been created and agreed with EMIS to highlight issues that are due to be fixed in later releases of EMIS in 2013. This document is available to download from the ECS website and has been circulated to IM+T Facilitators.
All EMIS Practices are now live with KIS following the completion of the rollout of Release B.
Any issues should be reported to the EMIS Support Desk in line with any other issue with EMIS.
Further EMIS releases of KIS are currently being planned and will be available in Release E and F 2013 (September / October 2013 and November / December 2013). The development of these changes is also on track.
Please note that it is not possible to include any attachments on KIS. This is due to a number of factors, notably file size and the requirements for viewing any files. This also helps speed up the sharing of information especially for the Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS24.
Following a query from a GP in Glasgow, it can be confirmed that all Current and Past Medical History items must be selected by the GP to ensure that only the relevant items are included on KIS.
It was agreed that there should be no automatic inclusion of codes for this part of KIS to prevent any sensitive codes being included by mistake.
EMIS pilot users are advised that a fix will be released on the next version of EMIS (April) to support the addition of past significant events.
Many thanks to all GP’s from Forth Valley who attended the Key Information Summary workshop on Tuesday 5th and Thursday 7th and provided great feedback (positive and negative) on the pilot to date. We will be taking all feedback forward as part of the ongoing development of KIS and will be updating and improving the guidance for KIS shortly.
Several GP’s reported that KIS is easier to use than ePCS and also liked how easy it was to add free text instead of faxing a Special Note. There were some queries regarding the mandatory Review Date and this will be discussed further.
It has been confirmed that over 500 practices are now sending ECS (and ePCS / KIS) information every 2 hours from GP Practices as part of the process to increase the extract runs and make this inforamtion available as soon as possible.
Boards that have completed this work for all practices are NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Tayside, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Borders and NHS Western Isles.
Plans are in place to roll this process out to all remaining GP Practices over the coming weeks, and more information will be shared on the impact this is having on ECS in due course.