Sydney, Australia – December 7, 2006 – Australian healthcare solutions provider, TrakHealth today announced it is experiencing rapid growth as it aggressively pursues new markets in Asia and New Zealand, wins significant repeat business with flagship customers in Europe, and maintains a strong domestic customer base in Australia. TrakHealth is on track to record a 50% increase in Asia-Pacific revenues in the 2006 calendar year compared with 2005, said Darren Jones, TrakHealth’s Regional Director for Asia-Pacific. “TrakHealth is seeing an upsurge in demand, particularly for phased electronic patient record solutions.

“The TrakCare healthcare information system – with its ‘FastTrak to ePR’ rapid integration capability – supports a phased implementation that builds upon existing healthcare systems one step at a time,” said Jones. “Our customers typically achieve initial quality of care benefits very quickly, but continue to extend the functionality and reach of their systems over a long period of time.”

TrakHealth today announced that Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Public Company Limited (BDMS) – the largest private health provider in Thailand providing in and out patient medical services through private hospitals in Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket and Samut Prakan – will migrate to the company’s TrakCare Web-based healthcare information system.

BDMS – which used TrakHealth’s earlier products Medtrak and LabTrak – will deploy TrakCare and its FastTrak to ePR capability to facilitate a group-wide summary electronic patient record (ePR) that can be shared throughout the group as patients move from one hospital to another.

In its second New Zealand contract win since adapting its TrakCare to meet local requirements, TrakHealth today announced it is supplying Mercy Hospital in Dunedin with integrated Web-based patient administration and clinicals software to achieve a hospital-wide electronic patient record.

In April this year TrakHealth announced that it had successfully completed phase one in the implementation of TrakCare at St George’s Hospital in Christchurch. Phase one included the successful implementation of a hospital-wide electronic patient record and integration with New Zealand’s National Health Index (NHI) using FastTrak to ePR.

In the United Kingdom, the roll-out of NHS Lothian’s new computer system, provided by TrakHealth, has reached an exciting new phase. The TrakCare Patient Administration System (PAS) is now ‘live’ at Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital (WGH), and electronic ordering and results reporting of laboratory and radiology investigations has also gone ‘live’ in the Surgical Unit at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE).

TrakCare already has a proven record within NHS Lothian, as it has been operating successfully in the Accident & Emergency Department of the RIE since November 2002. The phased roll-out began at the RIE, Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion and Liberton Hospital in December 2005, with Western General implementation starting in October 2006, followed by roll-out at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh in 2007 and St John’s Hospital, Livingston in 2008.

In Portugal, TrakHealth is rolling out TrakCare to additional hospitals within Grupo Português de Saude, the country’s second largest private healthcare group with 11 hospitals. In September, TrakHealth and Portugal Telecom announced they had successfully completed, in record time, the first implementation of the TrakCare integrated health management system in Centro Hospitalario de San Francisco, in Leiria, Portugal.

In Italy, TrakHealth today announced that San Giovanni Battista Hospital (Molinette) in Turin is upgrading to the latest Web-based version of TrakCare, beginning with its Accident & Emergency department, the biggest in the Turin region. Molinette previously utilised the Visual Basic version of TrakCare to automate virtually all major hospital areas with patient data stored in a single, secure electronic patient record which is easily accessible to care providers throughout the hospital.

In Australia in March this year TrakHealth announced it had won a contract, valued in excess of $10 million, to provide TrakCare to Community Health agencies within the Victorian Department of Human Services. Part of the Victorian government’s $324 million HealthSMART program, the first sites are expected to go live by the first quarter of 2007.

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,” 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.