Sydney, Aug 24, 2006 AEST (ABN Newswire) - IBA Health Limited (ASX: IBA) Australia's largest ASX listed eHealth company announced today an agreement with Ex-Services Homes in Ballina, NSW a leading aged and community care provider, to supply and implement IBA's Integrated Aged and Community Care Solution across Ex-Services Homes hostel, nursing home, independent living units and extensive community and home care client base.
The licence, services and support agreement is to be implemented over the next 6 months and is valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars.
IBA will supply the core applications that will allow Ex-Services Homes to seamlessly work with residential community and home based clients helping them to maintain their independence whilst centrally coordinating the delivery of high quality and cost effective care.
Ex-Services Homes will also implement modules from IBA's award winning community care suite that utilises state-of-art technology to schedule and coordinate care delivery whilst providing care staff with the opportunity to use real time clinical information when working in clients homes.
Paul Morris CEO of Ex-Services Homes said "we are experiencing an increasing demand for our community services and with further residential services becoming operational in the near future we need to plan for the extra demand this will place our on administrative and care staff.
"The successful implementation of IBA's aged and community care system will allow us to ensure our staff based in the communities are not burdened with complex time consuming administrative tasks and are free to focus on the delivery of quality care to our residents. We have been through an extensive and exhausting evaluation process and are delighted with the solution provided by IBA Health.
"It is quite clear that the solution has been developed from the ground up with due regard to the requirements of its end users and not simply an adaptation of other sector solutions as others have presented."
Steve Garrington CEO of IBA Health said "Ex-Services Homes joins a growing community of aged care providers who recognise the importance of mobile technology and the strategic power of a single source of information to assist clients to live in the community longer, maintaining their independence whilst reducing the cost of care"
Contact
Steve Garrington
CEO
IBA Health Limited
Phone: +61 2 8251 6700
Email: steve.garrington@ibahealth.com
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