Healthcare Solutions
for Scotland

Working together with NSS to deliver the latest Healthcare IT Solutions for Scotland

Cegedim Healthcare Solutions is part of the Cegedim Group, a major supplier of healthcare technology and information services across Europe, providing approved NHS GP clinical systems and NHS pharmacy dispensing software across the whole of the UK. Cegedim Healthcare Solutions also offers intelligent healthcare solutions to support collaborative working across the healthcare landscape with solutions for community care and shared care, as well as an innovative solution for population health management. Our aim is to lead the market with innovative healthcare technology that improves healthcare provision and expedites improvements in patient care and health outcomes.
We believe that technology should be an enabler, allowing healthcare professionals to focus more time on delivering safer, more effective care to their patients.
Who are Cegedim?
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Why choose Cegedim?
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Healthcare Solutions for Scotland
We have been working with NSS to deliver the latest Healthcare Solutions in Scotland - see what this means for you:
Our Solutions for Scotland


GP
Solution
Shared Care
Solution


Population Health Management
Community Care
Solution

What's included in our core GP Solution?
Our core GP solution for Scotland has been created to support today's modern GP with everything you need. Working in partnership with NSS we can offer a fully assured clinical system with lots of additional features all with an intuitive user interface to help you work smarter..
Our new appointments desktop application will include more features to help you manage your appointments and improve communication with patients. We have also put you in control with total flexibility to configure the display of the patient record with Vision 3 and our setup allows you to conduct your consultations quickly and efficiently. We now have faster and easier prescribing for clinicians with our Formulary Management and Condition Based prescribing, allowing you to create single or multiple formularies that can be shared across the practice, allowing for greater consistency without limitations.
You will have access to a much richer data set with combined reporting that allows for data consistency, improved reporting and aligned practice templates. With Vision Anywhere you have access to an internet first secure desktop application that provides 24/7 real time access to patient records, quick and accurate data entry, easy access to helpful tools and smart prescribing assistance - enabling you to carry out efficient patient consultations anywhere, any time. You can also allow patients to control their own repeats and appointments, control footfall in the practice and improve patient interaction with the Patient Facing Services application available 24/7. The new Tasks desktop application is an evolving solution, which can improve communication across users and creates strong foundations for the future of healthcare.
This solution will continue to evolve to work harder for YOU.


Vision Anywhere
An internet first secure desktop application

Vision Anywhere
Remote access for smart consultations - anywhere
Vision Anywhere is an internet first secure application that provides 24/7 real time access to patient records. Our Business Continuity solution keeps your consultations on track even when your day gets disrupted.
Whether it’s a loss of internet access, a power outage, or data centre connectivity issues Vison Anywhere ensures you can continue accessing and recording clinical data seamlessly.
Designed to support today's modern GP with remote care delivery and collaborative working across shared care settings.
Vision Anywhere provides you with remote access to patients' records with seamless automation, quick and accurate data entry, easy access to helpful tools and smart prescribing assistance - enabling you to carry out efficient patient consultations anywhere, any time.

Fully scalable solution for use across larger healthcare teams and settings.
Vision Anywhere is an agnostic solution that works seamlessly across different healthcare settings allowing clinicians to share and update patients records in real time.
Its key features allow you to view and update patient records remotely, making it ideal for recording the delivery of care in the community or during extended hours.
Vision Anywhere is also fully scalable, meaning it can be used either in a single practice or at scale across larger teams and different healthcare settings.

Appointments
Innovative appointment management

Appointments
Resolve queries faster and manage appointments more efficiently with our new appointments app.
The fast and intuitive appointment management app, will mean that receptionist can deal with more patients, quicker. It allows the ability to track the patient's appointment booking history, which will also help resolve queries faster.
With SMS integration you can benefit from fast and cost effective communication with patients. Also a simplified view of clinicians availability saves time for Practice Managers. The easy to use appointment template builder and diary planner makes it simple to maintain clinician diaries.

The appointments app includes:
- Appointments management with; booking, cancelling, searching and rescheduling.
- Full appointments audit trail.
- SMS - booking and cancelling of single or multiple appointments direct from the appointments book.
- Complete view of patients appointment history.
- Management tool for displaying clinicians availability.
- New appointments template builder and diary planner.

Tasks
Enabling secure and efficient communication

Tasks
Safe and fast messaging and task management
Tasks is a secure collaboration tool which allows your practice to communicate effectively and gives peace of mind in a busy practice. It provides links back to the patient record, conversations, attachments and full traceability of assigned tasks with one to-do list for each user.
Tasks offers a robust audit trail allowing you to track all Task activity, status and conversations, all security features that you can't get from more traditional and familiar communication tools.

The Tasks app allows you to:
- Send and receive tasks
- Send attachments
- Audit and search using filters on tasks

Outcomes Manager Standard
Collect and Understand your Population's Health Data

Outcomes Manager Standard
Helping you to Collect and Understand your Population's Health Data so you can Influence Positive Change
Outcomes Manager Standard is a simple and innovative tool that will now be included as part of our core solution and will support the creation and sharing of clinical pathways and data entry templates authored to local healthcare requirements to help influence change, optimise primary care resources, save costs and improve patient outcomes.

It can also work with Vision 3 to provide a complete population health management system to your Health Board.
Outcomes Manager Pro is available as part of the GPIT catalogue and will unlock all the features available within Outcomes Manager to give you a cloud based dashboard for monitoring and reporting on patient data and outcomes across geographic areas.

Vision+
Supporting compliance and consistency across primary care

Vision+
Supporting standardised patient care and helping you maintain continuity of care for your patients.
Vision+ pathways provide intelligent decision support using intuitive templates that are based on national or local guidelines. These can include alerts on patient records, so you receive instant notifications about important clinical information. The intelligence driven templates can adapt and assist the user in clinical\ non-clinical decision support depending on the patients history and symptoms.
Create your own Vision + templates or customise existing ones for fast and accurate data entry during consultations to use in your own practice or share them with other GP practices to help standardise data entry, promote consistency across a cluster or federation.

The benefits of Vision+ include:
- Standardisation of patient care across healthcare communities
- Alerts provides instant notification about key clinical information
- Optimises clinicians time with the patient

Patient Services
Convenient online platform for patients

Patient Services
Available 24/7 patients love the convenience of GP online patient services
Your patients want to interact with their GP practice online at any time, wherever they are. Our responsive website optimises this experience on smartphones, tablets and computers so that your patients can book appointments, request prescriptions and view medical records online.

Using the Patient Services website on a computer or mobile, patients can:
- order prescriptions
- book and cancel appointments

Vision 3
A comprehensive clinical system

Vision 3
A clinical system which works harder so you can work smarter
Our comprehensive clinical system is already the cornerstone for many practices in Scotland. Supporting best practice guidelines with a multifaceted suite of applications that help practices deliver all aspects of business and patient care.
Including key modules such as Formulary Management and Condition Based prescribing for central creation and management of formularies, saving you time and money and enabling standardised prescribing.
Vision 3 also gives you total flexibility to configure the display of the patient record. You can view patient history at a glance before even starting the consultation and the flexibility supports particular clinic types and roles and the setup allows you to conduct your consultations quickly and efficiently. This intuitive clinical system, facilitates smarter working so you can focus more time on patient care.

Benefits of Vision 3:
- Easy to use with fully customisable patient record views which allow for greater flexibility.
- Functionally rich with embedded prescribing and clinical decision support.
- Comprehensive Reporting and analytical tools including clinical audits and ad-hoc searching.
- Interoperable with popular third party applications to help practices save time and deliver safer more effective care.
- Formulary Management & Condition based prescribing with national or local formulary management tool and enabling condition based prescribing at a practice level for faster and easier prescribing for clinicians.

What's included in the GPIT catalogue?
Our GPIT catalogue products offer an extension on our GP core solution and is adaptable to support everything you need to deliver round the clock clinical care, whether working from your practice, making home visits or working as part of an extended care team.
The new models of care demand collaboration across healthcare teams. We offer an unrivalled solution for integrated shared care designed from the outset to make patient information, centralised appointments and clinical outcomes available across multi-specialty teams and clusters. As well as our industry leading PMR Pharmacy Manager for dispensing practices and out patient engagement tools, we have a solution for everyone.
This solution will continue to evolve to work harder for YOU.


Outcomes Manager Pro
Collect and Understand your Population's Health Data so you can Influence Positive Change

Outcomes Manager Pro
Helping you to Collect and Understand your Population's Health Data so you can Influence Positive Change
Outcomes Manager Pro unlocks the full potential of Outcomes Manager. It is a simple and innovative tool that uses a cloud based dashboard for monitoring and reporting on patient data and outcomes across geographic areas.
Outcomes Manager works with all major GP Clinical Systems, to provide a complete population health management system for Health Boards.

The data within Outcomes Manager can also feed into service redesign methodology to aid best healthcare practice, and support disease management, case finding and referral management.

Patient Engagement
SMS text messaging

Patient Engagement
Contact patients quickly and conveniently
Being able to contact patients in a way that is convenient to both you and your patient can help improve appointment keeping, uptake in new services and medication adherence. Our SMS text messaging provides a secure two-way messaging service where you can send health care invitations, appointment reminders and questionnaires to patients.
Text messaging is an increasingly popular way to remind patients about their appointments and to send call, recall invitations. It is a fast, cheap and effective way to communicate with your patients.

Software Features
- Fully integrated with Vision
- Send to selected patients
- Search for specific appointment types for reminders
- Scheduling function for automated reminders
Cancelled appointments
- Text patients to book a new appointment
- Patients can text back to cancel
- Cancelled appointment available to re-book automatically
Recalls
- Send call/recall invitations by text message
- Recall categories
- Patients can reply to stop further invitations

Pharmacy Manager
PMR for dispensing practices

Pharmacy Manager
A PMR for your dispensing practice that works harder, so you can work smarter.
This customer-centric PMR system gives you a dashboard that allows you to manage your dispensing simply and efficiently with actionable intelligence, so that you can spend more time concentrating on patient care.
It offers and intuitive dashboard for easy navigations and gives you actionable intelligence. The dynamic tools give you real time colour coded notifications, alerting you to key areas of attention. With Efficient, accurate dispensing, clinical checks and management of medicines.

Benefits and features of Pharmacy Manager include:
- Complete stock visibility for enhanced ordering and control
- Reporting tools and data management
- Run and process effective patient communications
- Easy access to a host of handy features including calendar notes, fridge temperatures and quick NHS links
- Innovative and scalable user interface for the perfect user experience

Shared Appointments
Innovative appointment management

Shared Appointments
Manage appointments across multi-speciality teams and shared care settings.
Our Appointments app allows you to share your appointment book beyond the practice boundary. Using Shared Appointments set up you can view, book and cancel patient appointments for a Shared Care service.
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Benefits of Shared Appointments:
- Supports shared care working across practices with centralised appointments (Vision and EMIS Web)
- Allows patients who contact Shared Care Centres directly to have access to available appointments in your practice
- Helps multiple practices manage shared resources such as reception or nursing staff
- Allows you to offer extended access to patients such as out of hours appointments across a locality

Shared Tasks
Enabling secure and efficient communication

Shared Tasks
Share tasks and manage workflows across multi-speciality teams and shared care settings.
Tasks allows you to share tasks beyond the practice boundary which makes it perfect for shared care. Using Shared Tasks with your wider healthcare teams, and the option to link back to the patient record, means the patients GP has full visibility of conversations relating to their patients care pathway.

Benefits of Shared Tasks:
- Share one to-do list for all users
- Send tasks, hold conversations or share files instantly and securely with co-workers
- Links back to the patient record give the patients GP full visibility of conversations relating to their patients care
- Collaborate across your organisation
- View conversation histories and see when tasks have been received, read and actioned
Take a look at what our customers are saying:

Manage Your Surgery Intuitively with Appointments
For Leith Surgery in Leith, Edinburgh, this involved the transition to Appointments; part of Cegedim’s Healthcare Solution’s Shared Care Solution and GP IT Solution.

SMS is the Primary Mode of Patient Communication
For Barclay Medical Practice in Scotland, its extensive use of SMS text messaging was was key to providing rapid Covid-19 specific patient communication.

Supporting Shared Services in Delivery of PCIP
To successfully shift care from General Practice to a shared service, NHS Tayside needed to provide immediate access to patient information from any location.

I love the system. I think it is progressive and with a few minor tweaks it covers all our needs. I like you listen to feedback and take action when you can.
Lorna Russell - Leith Surgery
Apart from being a good clinical system my second reason for recommending is due to the relationship we have with the company and staff. They are very responsive , caring and always keen to assist with any issues large or small.
Customer in Lothian
I have been using Vision for a long time and have always found it to be reliable. The alternatives don't come close.
Jean Johnston, Practice Manager

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