PRIMIS was set up in 2000 when our primary focus was on supporting general practitioners and their teams to engage with IT and embrace the use of electronic health records. Much of this work involved identifying the barriers and facilitators to implementing quality electronic health records and helping clinicians to understand how IT could be used as part of their process of patient care, rather than a separate entity.
Twenty-five years later and, following this early work on improved data quality and sufficiency, primary care data in UK general practice has become a valuable resource with multiple uses from enhancing individual patient care to supporting national public health initiatives.
The work that PRIMIS undertakes supports:
- clinical decision-making and patient care
- public health surveillance and disease prevention
- population health management
- quality improvement
- health research and policy development
- digital health innovations
- operation efficiency and resource management
Explore PRIMIS Projects to discover more about our work