Acquisition of new PathFinderRF Product IPR

10 June 2011

Avia Health Informatics Plc

("Avia" or the "Company")

Acquisition of new PathFinderRF Product IPR

Avia (AIM: AVIA), the AIM-listed developer and provider of clinical decision support systems, is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Plain Healthcare Ltd ("Plain") has signed a contract with Nene Commissioning Group ("Nene") in Northamptonshire to acquire the intellectual property rights to sell and manage future development of their PathFinder product.

Nene is an award-winning and pioneering Commissioning Group within the NHS who have developed PathFinder to its current state to provide an innovative on-line referral facilitation and clinical communication system. Nene has already successfully rolled the system out across Northamptonshire. Plain will further develop and market the product, branded as PathFinderRF.

PathFinderRF enables NHS Commissioning Groups and other Primary Care Organisations to manage referrals from GP surgeries to specialist and community services for further treatment.

Consideration for the acquired IPR will be paid solely in the form of sales royalties on the licences to use the PathFinderRF product, on a decreasing sliding scale over a five year period. Avia will fund the limited continued development cost of the product.

PathFinderRF is already an established product and has proven value within the NHS to assist health organisations deliver improvements in quality, together with cost savings by streamlining the referral process. With the financial and other pressures currently being put on the NHS, Plain believes this is one of the key reasons Commissioners will see its advantages and be persuaded to buy the product.

With the existing Odyssey clinical decision support systems and now PathFinderRF, Avia and Plain can now offer NHS organisations across the UK & Ireland various clinical 'end-to-end' solutions to help improve the efficiency of their services. The product range now spans initial self-assessment using Odyssey SelfAssess, assessment by the clinician using PatientAssess and the referral by the clinician to general or specialist care using PathFinderRF.

Barry Giddings, Executive Chairman of Avia, commented:

"We feel that PathFinderRF sits perfectly alongside and complements our Odyssey clinical decision support products and it will mean we can offer further solutions to both new and existing customers within the UK and Ireland - as well as the potential of international opportunities in the near future."

James Findlay, Creator of the original PathFinder system for Nene, commented:

"I am very pleased to see Plain Healthcare taking on the PathFinder product to ensure its future development and am looking forward to working with them to take the product forward clinically, technically and commercially."

For more information on the Odyssey products please visit www.odyssey-cdss.com 

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About Avia Health Informatics Plc

Avia is a developer and provider of clinical decision support systems. Its Odyssey product range is used by clinicians and non-clinicians in various environments around the world to provide effective pre-diagnostic 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, tablet or mobile device, with clinical content, training and services delivered via the web.

Avia's partners provide market reach into geographies outside of the UK, including 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.comand the Odyssey product range: www.odyssey-cdss.com