8,000 new users of Advanced mobile solutions, complete with either an Orange or Vodafone airtime package, have been added in the current financial year to date (year ending 29 February 2012).
Advanced's iConnect and iNurse are mobile solutions for health and care applications, which support high quality care in patients' homes. Benefits include improved service delivery, reduced costs and the provision of both data security and lone worker safety. The UK market opportunity for iNurse and iConnect currently stands at approximately 465,000 users.
Advanced's iConnect provides a mobile point of care solutions to carers in the community. In addition to delivering real-time task lists and care recipient data to care workers via their mobile phones, the solution records actual arrival and departure times. To prove attendance, care workers simply touch in and out at each visit, using their NFC-enabled mobile devices coupled with radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags fitted within service users' homes.
Advanced's iNurse is a mobile patient management system, which enables community clinician and nursing teams to record and communicate patient care information using handheld Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices. iNurse allows healthcare professionals to access, record and communicate patient care information and records, using a Smartphone at the point of care, thereby allowing them to increase both the time spent with patients and the number of patient visits.
Vin Murria, Chief Executive of Advanced, commented: "Our simple 'one stop shop approach' of mobile devices plus airtime enables us to rapidly deliver iConnect and iNurse to more care professionals resulting in increased patient-facing time and significant improvements in efficiency.
"The strength of our product offering is clearly demonstrated by the 8,000 new users this year of Advanced Integrated Mobile Solutions with leading network providers."
About Advanced Computer Software Group
Advanced Computer Software Group plc is a leading provider of patient management software solutions for the healthcare sector, and back office solutions for businesses and organisations in both the public and private sectors.
The Group has an annual turnover of £95m and over 850 staff based in seven regional offices serving over 7,000 customers within the UK.
Originally established to consolidate the fragmented primary care software market, the Group now comprises three divisions addressing the needs of both public and private sector organisations. The Health & Care division sells a range of products to the NHS and private sector including patient workflow management and case management for social care providers, mobile applications for care in the community and rostering applications for social care settings.
The Business Solutions division provides accounting, payroll, HR, business intelligence, document management and collaborative solutions to local authorities, healthcare organisations and companies across the private sector.
Underpinning these divisions, the Group's 365 Managed Services division supports the Group's software portfolio in addition to providing managed services to a wide range of customers. By means of this common technology platform the Group is able to offer solutions in a variety of ways to best suit customers' business needs including the provision of hosted Cloud-based solutions, such as Software as a Service (SaaS), which can be delivered as a fully managed service with software hosted either in the Group's data centre or at customers' own premises.