SCIMP Services

What do we do?

SCIMP provides a resource of primary care health informatics advice for NHS Scotland.

We have published our SCIMP Services document to help provide customers with some back ground to the services we provide.  This document gives details of our services and skill sets.

How do you access us?

Simply contact us by e-mail in the first instance.  We are happy to take enquiries from across the NHS, both from people working in projects using eHealth and from people in practice actually working with eHealth applications.

What can we advise on?

We are pleased to provide advice and consultancy on a wide range of topics including:

  • Clinical Terminologies e.g. Read, SNOMED CT
  • Interoperability & messaging
  • Business analysis and process change
  • Data sharing and data analysis
  • Data protection, confidentiality and consent
  • Consumer eHealth
  • Patient access to records
  • Document management
  • ePrescribing systems
  • Decision support systems
  • Clinical modelling
  • Data standards
  • Clinical safety in software systems
  • Paperless working
  • Pathology and Order Comms
  • GP contract support
  • Immunisations recording
  • Requirements analysis and authoring