Nene agrees Plain Healthcare deal
Social enterprise Nene Commissioning Group, based in Northamptonshire, has sold its PathFinder software to Plain Healthcare.
Nene, which is part of the NHS, has developed PathFinder to provide an online referral and clinical communication system. Nene has already rolled the system out across Northamptonshire.
Avia will now have the intellectual property rights to sell and manage the future development of the software, which is branded as PathFinderRF.
Plain Healthcare is a subsidiary of Avia Health Informatics.
Consideration for the software will be paid in the form of sales royalties on the licences to use the PathFinderRF product, on a decreasing sliding scale over a five-year period. Avia will fund the continued development cost of the product.
Barry Giddings, executive chairman of Avia, said: "We feel that PathFinderRF sits perfectly alongside and complements our Odyssey clinical decision support products and it will mean we can offer further solutions to both new and existing customers within the UK and Ireland - as well as the potential of international opportunities in the near future."
James Findlay, creator of the original PathFinder system for Nene, added: "I am very pleased to see Plain Healthcare taking on the PathFinder product to ensure its future development and am looking forward to working with them to take the product forward clinically, technically and commercially."
