Healthcare Gateway Limited

Healthcare Gateway Limited is a 50:50 joint venture business from EMIS and INPS.

The aim of Healthcare Gateway is to implement a Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) that will facilitate the sharing of data between healthcare professionals.

EMIS and INPS software users in the UK represent around 75 per cent of GP practices and together hold approximately 46 million electronic patient health records.

The formation of Healthcare Gateway allows real time interoperability with GP systems and other healthcare professionals within the NHS. This has the potential to significantly increase efficiency in the NHS in addition to improving patient care.

The development of the MIG has been driven by demand from the NHS and other healthcare providers to move to a "connect all" ethos. The need for wider access to a critical mass of birth-to-grave patient records is increasingly important given the drive to deliver more NHS services in the community.