Mr. Dan Matlow reports

VITALHUB ANNOUNCES DEPLOYMENTS OF REFERRAL MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

Novari Health, a Vitalhub Corp. company, has executed agreements to implement wait-list and referral management software technologies at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and across the northern region of British Columbia. Sunnybrook joins hospitals, regional health authorities and health systems in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom that have implemented Novari solutions to improve access to care. The Novari solutions are being leveraged in British Columbia to help modernize the region's delivery of surgical, diagnostic imaging and laboratory services.

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

The Novari technologies are being deployed alongside Sunnybrook's implementation of a single health information system. Novari technologies complement and integrate with many health information systems, electronic medical record systems, picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), and others.

The Novari ATC module will support improvements in surgical efficiency by managing complex wait-lists, optimizing operating room utilization, reducing surgical backlogs, and easing administrative workload for clinicians and staff.

The Novari referral management modules will be deployed to efficiently manage the receipt, processing, workflows and wait-list management across a mix of inpatient and outpatient clinics.

Novari's medical imaging requisition management solution will be integrated with both the hospital's new Oracle health information system and picture archiving and communication system to digitize and streamline the radiology department's workflows.

"Moving towards a single, modern health information system has been years in the making. Partnering with Novari and integrating their technology with our new health information system will only further enable our teams to provide the world-class care Sunnybrook is known for," said Rob Lee, vice-president, digital health and chief information officer, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

"Sunnybrook, from its founding in the 1940s, has had a rich history of providing outstanding care. My Novari and Vitalhub colleagues and I are proud to play an important part in their next chapter as they move to an integrated, electronic health record system," said John Sinclair, president and chief executive officer of Novari.

British Columbia's Northern Health

Northern Health is one of six British Columbia regional health authorities that deliver health services to meet the needs of the population within their respective geographic regions. Northern Health covers the northern half of the province, an area of nearly 600,000 square kilometres. It delivers health services to 26 communities, 55 first nation communities, 11 Metis chartered communities as well as Inuit families. Northern Health joins British Columbia's Island Health as well as other hospitals, regional health authorities and health systems that have implemented Novari's information technology solutions to improve organizational efficiency and patients' access to care.

Northern Health is implementing the Novari ATC surgical wait-list management module. The Novari ATC software is widely used to increase elective surgery throughput by improving OR (operating room) utilization and enhancing surgical wait-list management.

The Novari medical imaging requisition management module is being deployed to efficiently manage the receipt, processing, workflows and wait-list management for all community referrals for diagnostic imaging across all 28 sites.

The region is also implementing Novari eRequest, a configurable referral management module to manage laboratory requisitions and to enable a regional central intake model for medical imaging referrals.

Novari's automated referral transcription and processing feature will be leveraged to help reduce the process of manual transcription of referrals by automating the intake, extraction and processing of referral documents.

The Novari technologies will seamlessly integrate with Oracle Health, Northern Health's hospital information system, as well as the AGFA Enterprise Imaging PACS system.

"As a rural health organization serving many distributed sites across a vast geographic region, Northern Health is pleased to implement the Novari suite of solutions to digitally transform diagnostic and surgical services in Northern British Columbia. By integrating Novari Health's proven tools with our existing clinical systems and workflow improvements, the goal is to improve the sustainability and capacity of rural health services that leads to better health outcomes for our patients and families," said Bjorn Butow, regional director, CIS (clinical information system) and digital transformation, Northern Health.

"The implementation of our software across Northern Health's surgery, laboratory and diagnostic imaging services is a continuation of our successful deployment with Island Health. From British Columbia to Nova Scotia, the U.K. and beyond, having the best available referral management software, paired with the most knowledgeable and experienced professional services teams, continues to earn the trust of hospitals and health systems," said John Sinclair, president and chief executive officer of Novari.

About Novari Health

Novari Health, a Vitalhub company, delivers cloud-based enterprise-scale AI-enabled (artificial intelligence) referral management, central intake and wait-list management software solutions that improve access to care while improving the efficiency and effectiveness of health care organizations. Leveraging HL7, FHIR, DICOM and other international standards, Novari's technologies complement and integrate with a wide variety of health care systems (for example, HIS, e-referral and PACS). Novari is one of the most trusted digital health solution providers.

About Vitalhub Corp.

Vitalhub is a leading software company dedicated to empowering health and human services providers globally. Vitalhub's comprehensive product suite includes electronic health records, operational intelligence and work force automation solutions that serve over 1,300 clients across the United Kingdom, Canada and other geographies. The company has a robust two-pronged growth strategy, targeting organic opportunities within its product suite and pursuing an aggressive M&A (merger and acquisition) plan. Vitalhub is headquartered in Toronto with over 700 employees globally, across key regions and the Vitalhub Innovations Lab in Sri Lanka.

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