Sydney, Australia, 27 September 2006 - Australian healthcare solutions provider, TrakHealth and Portugal Telecom successfully completed, in record time, the first implementation of TrakCare’s integrated health management system in Centro Hospitalario de San Francisco, in Leiria, Portugal. This hospital is part of Grupo Português de Saude, the second largest private healthcare group in Portugal, with a total of 11 hospitals throughout the country.

In only seven months, TrakHealth and Portugal Telecom met the challenge to integrate all of the hospitals in this group, reduce costs, and improve customer service. The first of eight hospitals that will rely on this solution is already applying the new system in three of its external patient admission centres. These centres are managed through the TrakCare solution for admissions, discharges, emergencies, surgeries, pharmacy and invoicing departments from the group’s head office.

TrakCare will make the health sector more open, more stable, and more customer/patient focused, all through Web technologies.

The newly-implemented system, Information Healthcare Systems (in Portuguese, Sistema de InformaÇão de Cuidados de Saúde – SICS), is based on SAP’s Business One ERP, and Australia-based TrakHealth’s TrakCare HIS solution. This international model has already been implemented in several international hospitals as well as in other hospitals in Portugal, including Santa Casa da Misericordia, SAMS, and Hospital Ortopédico de Santa Ana. However, this is the first project that includes a major Healthcare Information System being mplemented by TrakHealth and Portugal Telecom.

"TrakCare will help the health sector become more transparent, more stable, and more customer/patient focused, all through Web technologies” says Luciano Brustia, TrakHealth Client Services Manager, Continental Europe. He adds, “Our priority is to develop and implement systems that help keep the high level of care for the patients”. Grupo Português de Saúde, owned entirely by Grupo Sociedade Lusa de Negócios SGPS, SA/Banco Português de Negócios, SA, is the second largest private Portuguese operator in the healthcare sector, with 67 € million in invoices in 2004.

Grupo Português de Saúde works in three healthcare areas: hospitalisation care, specialised care and diagnosis, and network management. The hospitals within Grupo Português de Saúde are the British Hospital Lisbon XXI, the British Field Hospital of Ourique, Centro Hospitalar de San Francisco, Unimed, Microcular - Center of Eye Microsurgery Laser and Diagnosis, and Cedima. The group also has management agreements with Hospital de S. Louis, in Lisbon, and Hospital de Santa Maria, in Porto.

About TrakHealth
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" approach, a combination of technology, architecture and methodology that delivers patient-centric care solutions at unmatched speeds with ePR benefits realised from the very first modules. 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.