AVIA HEALTH INFORMATICS PLC 
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Avia (AIM: AVIA), the developer and provider of clinical
decision support and communication facilitation to manage
referrals systems, is pleased to announce that its wholly
owned subsidiary Plain Healthcare Ltd ("Plain") has signed a
two-year contract for the sale of Odyssey FaceToFace and
Odyssey Reception with Hounslow CCG. The Odyssey software
will embedded in TPP's SystmOne enabling Hounslow CCG to
support its new Urgent Care Centre. Patients attending the
centre will be initially prioritised by a receptionist using
Odyssey Reception software, and then passed to a nurse using
Odyssey FaceToFace decision support to complete the clinical
assessment and treatment.
Hounslow CCG's Urgent Care Centre is being built at West
Middlesex University Hospital and will be open 24 hours a
day, every day of the year to treat a range of minor
illnesses and minor injuries that require urgent
attention.
Odyssey FaceToFace is a comprehensive clinical decision
support system for face-to-face consultation in emergency or
primary care settings. Odyssey FaceToFace offers varying
levels of support covering the full range of acute
presentations, and includes sophisticated guidance for
history taking, examination, diagnosis and treatment.
With the existing Odyssey clinical decision support systems
and now PathFinderRF, Avia now offers healthcare
organisations various clinical 'end-to-end' solutions to help
improve the efficiency of their services. The product range
for primary care spans initial self-assessment using Odyssey
SelfAssess; receptionist prioritisation and assessment by the
clinician using Odyssey PatientAssess; and the referral by
the clinician to community or specialist care using
PathFinderRF.
"We are pleased to be working with Hounslow CCG taking on Odyssey Reception and FaceToFace. We look forward working with them to take full advantage of Odyssey in an ED and Urgent Care environment supporting cost savings through effective and efficient clinical assessments."
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Enquiries: Avia Health Informatics Plc Tel. +44 (0) 1494 618 503Barry Giddings, Chairman
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited Tel. +44 (0) 20 7459 3600
Adam Pollock, Corporate Broking
Giles Stewart, Corporate Finance
Avia is a developer and provider of clinical decision support
systems. Its Odyssey range is used by clinicians and
non-clinicians in various environments around the world to
provide effective healthcare support, increasing the levels
of patient care while delivering operational efficiencies.
The delivery of Odyssey can be in a static or mobile
environment from a PC, laptop, iPad, tablet or mobile device,
with clinical content, training and services delivered via
the web or hosted service. Avia's PathFinderRF offers on-line
referral facilitation to manage the quality of referrals.
Avia's partners provide market reach into geographies outside
of the UK, including Europe, Far East, the United States and
Australia.
The Odyssey range is built on a common medical content
database, which has been developed over the past 16 years.
Odyssey is continually updated, tailored with question and
answer sets and has a user interface adapted for the
particular user groups and the environment in which it is
used. Environments include prisons, ships, call centres, GP
out of hours, walk in centres, care homes, pharmacies and
other clinical and non-clinical environments.
For more information on Avia please visit: www.ahi-plc.com,Odyssey: www.odyssey-cdss.comand
PathFinderRF: http://www.plain.co.uk/
