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Plain Healthcare has raised through its parent company Avia Health Informatics Plc, £200,000 by way of a subscription of 333,334 new ordinary shares at 60p per share by institutional investors.

The net proceeds, amounting to approximately £190,000, will be applied primarily to continue development work on the company’s roll out of its mobile clinical decision support software products and to complete the development of specific touch-screen applications.Plain Healthcare 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-care advice; is also used to manage demand for clinical services in an efficient manner. Used by GP out of hours 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 Centres, Polyclinics, primary care centres and practices staffed by varying nurse grades.
• 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 FirstAssess is specifically for use in the Prison service and secure environments to help improve healthcare in these challenging environments.
• Odyssey SelfAssess is being developed to allow patients to self-assess their symptoms prior to consultation with clinical services Odyssey products interact with leading patient administration systems and other key systems used by the NHS.
•  Odyssey ParaMedic initially trialled to empower paramedics to make safe assessments of elderly patients that have fallen. Tim Morris, UK Operations Director at Plain Healthcare Ltd commented:

“This investment comes at a great time for Plain Healthcare as it will enable us to further develop our existing product range as well as explore the new products we have in the pipeline." Avia Health Informatics Plc Chairman, Barry Giddings said: “We are very pleased to have raised this money which supplements the Company's existing cash resources and enables us to carry out the mobile software product development without altering our existing work programmes. We are confident the development of the mobile software products for use on touch-screen devices with their tailored content for different user markets within all parts of the world, will help support Plain’s international development strategy via its International Partnership Programme and bring more reseller and direct clients through to the company.”

Source:Avia Health Informatics