Microtest Health was a health informatics company founded in 1955 based in
Bodmin
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,
Cornwall
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, UK. The company was acquired by innovation venture capital investor, Public Group International in April 2020, and rebranded to Eva Health Technologies in September 2020. It began selling prescribing software to GP practices in the 1980s.
Until April 2020, Chris Netherton is its managing director. It was nominated for the South West Digital Awards in 2018.
Its Open Evolution system is integrated with
Servelec
Servelec is a health informatics company based in Sheffield and owned by The Access Group. It supplies software to the healthcare, social care and education sectors.
The company comprises:
* Servelec Health and Social Care (known for: EPR, PAS, ...
's RiO electronic patient record, which is used within mental health, community health and child health care settings. It plans further integration with its social care case management system, Mosaic.
It aims to implement the
NHS Digital
NHS Digital is the trading name of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which is the national provider of information, data and IT systems for commissioners, analysts and clinicians in health and social care in England, particularly th ...
programme GP Connect.
England
Microtest Health produces one of the computer systems available to GPs in England under the Systems of Choice scheme from 2008.
Once the most dominant primary care software in Devon and Cornwall, Microtest's Evolution software was replaced by EMIS Health's EMIS Web platform which now (2020) accounts for two thirds of all GP surgeries in Cornwall. Microtest's contract with the Welsh NHS, taking the focus away from their customers in Cornwall has been cited as a major contributor to this shift for the previously very loyal customer base.
Wales
111 GP surgeries using EMIS Health in Wales moved to Microtest in June 2018. It is one of two companies awarded a four year contract by the
NHS Wales
NHS Wales ( cy, GIG (Gwasanaeth Iechyd Gwladol) Cymru) is the publicly-funded healthcare system in Wales, and one of the four systems which make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom.
NHS Wales was formed as part of the public ...
Informatics Service. This contract was terminated in October 2019 after numerous delays, with a number of those GP surgeries moving back to EMIS Health.
See also
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EMIS Health
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SystmOne
SystmOne is a centrally hosted clinical computer system developed by Horsforth-based The Phoenix Partnership (TPP). It is used by healthcare professionals in the UK predominantly in primary care. The system is being deployed as one of the accredit ...
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VisionHealth
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