RNS Release - PathFinderRF contract with Lincolnshire S.W. CC Gp

10 January 2012

Avia Health Informatics Plc

("Avia" or the "Company")

PathFinderRF contract with

Lincolnshire South West Clinical Commissioning Group

Avia (AIM: AVIA), the developer and provider of decision support and clinical communication systems,

is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Plain Healthcare ("Plain") has signed a contract for the sale of PathFinderRF enabling Lincolnshire South West Clinical Commissioning Group ("Lincolnshire South West CCG") to support referrals and clinical communication in south Lincolnshire.

Lincolnshire South West CCG is responsible for commissioning healthcare services in Lincolnshire, parts of Rutland, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, working to improve the quality and delivery of healthcare services for their patients and to reduce inequalities across the area.

PathFinderRF is an innovative on-line referral decision support and clinical communication system that enables Commissioning Groups and other Primary Care Organisations to manage referral decision making and the communication of clinical information from general practice to specialist and community services. Avia acquired the intellectual property rights to sell and manage development of PathFinderRF from Nene Commissioning Group in Northants in June last year.

With the existing Odyssey clinical decision support systems and now PathFinderRF, Avia can now offer healthcare organisations across the UK & Ireland various clinical 'end-to-end' solutions to help improve the efficiency of their services. The product range for primary care now 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.

Barry Giddings, Chairman of Avia Health Informatics Plc, commented:

"We are very pleased to be working with Lincolnshire South West CCG taking on PathFinderRF and look forward to supporting them to take full advantage of PathFinderRF in supporting cost savings through effective referrals. We look forward to continuing to grow the expanding list of Commissioning Groups using PathFinderRF."

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Enquiries:

Avia Health Informatics Plc                                            0;       Tel. +44 (0) 1494 618 503

Barry Giddings, Chairman

Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited                                            0;   Tel. +44 (0) 20 7459 3600

Giles Stewart, Corporate Finance

Adam Pollock, Corporate Broking

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 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. The groups other product, 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 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