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12 January 2010 
 
                          Avia Health Informatics Plc 
 
                           ("Avia" or "the Company") 
 
                  First contract in Northern Ireland secured 
 
  * Southern Area Urgent Care Services (SAUCS) agrees a one year contract with 
    Plain Healthcare Limited for clinical decision support tools. 
 
  * Third contract announcement since the Company's admission to AIM in 
    November 2009. 
 
Avia (AIM: AVIA), the developer and provider of clinical decision support 
systems worldwide, announces that its subsidiary, Plain Healthcare Limited 
("Plain"), has been awarded a one year contract by Southern Area Urgent Care 
Services (SAUCS), to use Plain's Odyssey eCover, a clinical decision support 
tool, to assist them in dealing with the expected increase in demand relating 
to the AH1N1 swine flu pandemic. 
 
The contract is strategically important as it is the first of Avia's new 
web-deployed products to be sold in Northern Ireland. SAUCS covers a patient 
population of approximately 360,000 across the southern region of Northern 
Ireland. 
 
The choice of Odyssey eCover was made as the product is intuitive to use and 
presented in plain English. 
 
 
SAUCS expects to operate the system using nursing staff that have limited 
experience of telephone triage. Consequently SAUCS has also purchased a 
learning and development package which includes a Telephone Skills Consultation 
workshop and Professional Issues workshop designed to assist in the training of 
their nurses to allow them to undertake telephone triage. 
 
Marie McConville, Head of GP OOHs & MIUs, SAUCS, stated: 
 
 
"We have chosen Odyssey eCover to ensure we are prepared to deal with increased 
demand on our service rising from the pandemic. To further support this we will 
also be undertaking a learning package from Plain including telephone 
consultation skills." 
 
Barry Giddings, Chairman, Avia Health Informatics commented: 
 
"This is, although modest in terms of the Company's annual turnover, another 
excellent strategic contract win. Avia is very pleased to be working with SAUCS 
and to have made our first commercial sale in Northern Ireland of our new 
generation, web-deployed product Odyssey eCover. We believe this will 
strengthen our new client's position to deal with the current flu and other 
future pandemics and are confident our suite of products can assist other 
organisations to do the same." 
 
Enquiries: 
 
Avia Health Informatics Plc 
 
Barry Giddings, Chairman                                 07770 747 818 
 
Nigel Leavy, Finance Director                            07540 014 503 
 
Merchant John East Securities Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker) 
 
Simon Clements/Bidhi Bhoma                               020 7628 2200 
 
Lothbury Financial (Financial PR) 
 
Gary Middleton/Michael Padley                            020 7011 9411 
 
For more information on Avia Health Informatics Plc please visit 
www.ahi-plc.com or for the Odyssey product range, please visit www.plain.co.uk 
 
Notes to editors 
 
Avia Health Informatics plc was admitted to trading on AIM on 16 November 2009 
having completed a reverse takeover of The Plain Software Company Limited 
("Plain"). It is Avia's intention to grow the business both organically and by 
acquisition. 
 
The Company produces a range of clinical decision support products under the 
Odyssey brand: 
 
  * Odyssey TeleAssess which supports telephone triage by nurses and the 
    provision of up-to-date self are advice; is also used to manage demand for 
    clinical services in an efficient manner. Used by GP out of ours services, 
    GP surgeries in-hours, ambulance trusts and the MoD. 
 
  * Odyssey FaceToFace is used by nurse-led clinics such as NHS Walk-in 
    Centres, GP-led Health entres, Polyclinics, primary care centres and 
    practices staffed by varying nurse grades. It's also used in prisons. 
 
  * Odyssey Reception is utilised by non-clinical staff to prioritise patient 
    queues and identify potential emergencies quickly and safely. It may be 
    used by receptionists throughout primary care services. 
 
  * Odyssey Gold a state-of-the-art combination product comprising some or all 
    Odyssey variants: Reception, TeleAssess and FaceToFace merged into one, 
    seamless solution. 
 
  * Odyssey eCover allows health managers to commission health workers to work 
    from home to provide emergency cover when needed. Securely held on N3 
    servers, its sophisticated security system allows access via domestic 
    broadband. 
 
  * Odyssey FirstAssess is being developed specifically for use in the Prison 
    service to help improve healthcare in this challenging environment. 
 
Odyssey products interact with leading GP patient administration systems and 
other key systems used by the NHS. 
 
ENDS 
 
 
 
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