Built by clinicians, for clinicians

Better together

Optum acquired EMIS in October 2023, uniting two leaders in healthcare innovation. By combining EMIS’s expertise in enabling the NHS to deliver integrated care through technology with Optum’s global leadership in advanced analytics and medicines optimisation, we’re uniquely positioned to drive meaningful change.

Together, we’re helping to realise the NHS’s vision for a more connected, efficient, and effective healthcare system. With a strong presence across UK healthcare, we leverage our deep experience, technology, and analytics at scale to tackle the biggest healthcare challenges.

Our mission is simple: helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health and care system work better for everyone.

The journey to optimising care

For nearly 40 years, EMIS’s mission was to be the leading provider of healthcare technology that improves people’s lives. The company began when two GPs in a rural Yorkshire practice united with a single aim: to put key healthcare information at the fingertips of clinicians whenever they needed it, wherever they are.

With that aim, EMIS grew to supply market leading clinical systems to the majority of UK GPs and community pharmacists, as well as supporting many community, hospital pharmacy and acute care environments.

A history of collaboration to improve UK healthcare

Optum has been involved in the UK healthcare arena since 2002, helping clinicians deliver high quality, cost-effective healthcare and improve the lives and wellbeing of patients.

With nearly 300,000 people collaborating worldwide, Optum combines expertise in technology and data to improve the delivery, quality and efficiency of healthcare, providing valuable advanced analytics, digital products and advisory services to healthcare organisations.

The future

As a combined organisation, Optum in the UK will benefit from accelerated investment to power up our collective vision of making lasting, meaningful improvements to healthcare in the UK. It’s time to take our leading clinical systems, in depth knowledge, and clinical expertise and do much much more – contributing to helping the NHS focus on preventative care, to make a difference in the life sciences environment and to support every end user to move forwards as the NHS looks to deliver faster, efficient and effective care. It’s always driven us and as a combined organisation, here at Optum we’re just as driven as we always were and excited to be supported by a larger organisation and increased investment.

Our story is really just getting started.