Melbourne, Australia – March 29, 2006 – Australian healthcare solutions provider TrakHealth today announced it has won a contract, valued in excess of $10 million, to provide its TrakCare Web-based healthcare information system (HIS) to Community Health agencies within the Victorian Department of Human Services.

TrakHealth won the contract under a competitive tender conducted by the Department of Human Services to deliver quality Community Health information solutions throughout the state under the Victorian government’s $324 million HealthSMART program.

The solution will provide Community Healthcare professionals with fingertip access to client information that supports improved co-ordination between agencies, more efficient delivery of services, and better health outcomes for the residents of Victoria.

One of the Department of Human Services’ key requirements was the ability for the ommunity Health information solution to integrate with Victoria’s state-wide healthcare integration rchitecture. TrakHealth will meet this integration requirement with its ‘FastTrak to ePR’ rapid integration capability.

The TrakCare implementation will be based on a standard state-wide product definition that will be deployed to all Community Health agencies with minimal configuration changes, maximising the capacity for rapid rollout.

TrakHealth has subcontracted leading IT services firm EDS for the implementation, with the first sites expected to go live in the fourth quarter of 2006/first quarter 2007. “This contract provides independent community health services the opportunity to participate in a state-wide co-ordinated and integrated information systems rollout for the first time in Victoria,” said Health Minister Bronwyn Pike. “This will improve client care, standardise client data and allow more time for health professionals to spend with clients.

“More than 150 health care professionals have been involved in selecting the TrakHealth product. Such extensive consultation with users has ensured that the product has been selected for health care professionals, by health care professionals,” Ms Pike said. “Victoria, with the HealthSMART program, is the second Australian state to make world class Community Health information systems from TrakHealth available across a wide range of agencies,” said Darren Jones, TrakHealth’s General Manager. “The implementation of TrakCare will ensure that Victorian Community Health professionals have access to the right information at the right time and place, improving efficiency and promoting better healthcare outcomes.”

About TrakCare
Founded in 1991, Australian-based TrakHealth (www.TrakHealth.com) develops and markets the TrakCare Web-based healthcare information system (HIS), providing improved care for every person by empowering every healthcare professional. Setting TrakCare apart is the revolutionary “FastTrak to ePR,” a combination of technology, architecture and methodology that delivers patient-centric care solutions at unmatched speeds with ePR benefits realised from the very first module. Installed in leading healthcare organisations in over 25 countries, TrakCare quickly and seamlessly integrates ePR information from existing legacy systems and multi-vendor solutions. TrakCare’s unrivalled flexibility means that systems can be easily customised to work the way healthcare professionals work.