IMAGE Project Data Collection -Instructions

• The IMAGE project will collect data from your clinical system using a set of MIQUEST queries. 

• A simple utility is provided to generate the required queries ready to run in your clinical system. 

• Once the queries have completed, the same utility can be used to collect and encrypt the MIQUEST response files. 

• Finally the encrypted response files should be sent as an email attachment to image@nhs.net .

• If you have any problems with the collection process, please contact support@qms-uk.com
  

Once downloaded, open (run) the collector utility program.  You will see the following prompt, click ‘Setup’

You will now need to generate the MIQUEST queries for the extraction, by clicking the ‘Generate MIQUEST Queries’ button:

You will be prompted as follows, and once you have selected the appropriate options, click ‘Generate’:

NOTE:

1. Make sure you choose the correct system type – the queries are different.
2. Enter your practice national code
3. Select the query output folder.  For Emis PCS, you can accept the default option.  For Emis LV, you will need to browse to the SHARED folder on your network and create the QMS\Queries folder.
4. The queries will be saved in the folder you specify and can be loaded from there into your clinical system.

Instructions for Emis LV can be found here.

Instructions for Emis PCS can be found here.

Once the queries have all completed, transfer the response files out using your clinical system MIQUEST, saving them in the QMS/Responses folded in the same location as the QMS/Queries folder selected above.  Now run the Collection Utility again, and select the ‘Collect Response Files’ option:

You will be prompted to select the location containing the response files.  Note for Emis LV, this is usually on the SHARED network folder. 

Once you have selected the location of the MIQUEST response files, click 'Collect' and you will be prompted to save the encrypted data file that must be sent to the IMAGE team at email address image@nhs.net

Make sure you save the encrypted response file (called IMAGEB12345.zip.p7m, or similar) in a folder that you can find to attach the file to an email message.  Send the file using your nhs.net email account to image@nhs.net

The process is now complete, thank you!

If you have any questions about the IMAGE project in general, please contact the IMAGE team at the above address.  If you have any technical problems with the collection, please contact QMS support at support@qms-uk.com