6th March 2013 - Ascribe, a leading provider of healthcare solutions, are pleased to announce the launch of their Electronic Document and Records Management (EDRM) accelerator, which uses Microsoft SharePoint technology, to enable healthcare organisations to realise the multi-million pound savings associated with digitising both clinical and back office information.

Ascribe has developed a new EDRM accelerator in partnership with Kofax, a leading provider of Capture Enabled BPM™ (Business Process Management) solutions, additionally leveraging Microsoft's SharePoint technology platform. The combination of Ascribe's healthcare expertise, Microsoft SharePoint and Kofax Capture, provides a powerful platform for healthcare organisations to digitise (and ultimately move away from) paper archives and paper-centric processes and deliver real-time, actionable information to clinicians and management teams.

Within a typical Acute setting, between 50 to 70 (full time equivalent) personnel can be engaged in the daily pursuit of marshalling paper clinical records, notes and letters, all of which can be more easily and speedily achieved using EDRM. Ascribe's research has found that it can take up to 11 working days to pull together paper records for just one clinic, resulting in an unnecessarily expensive and prolonged process, delays to patient care, and poor use of resources. The EDRM accelerator, based on proven and robust technology, reduces document retrieval time from over 10 days to less than a second.

Stephan Bleeckx, Senior Marketing Director for Kofax in EMEA commented: "The potential benefits of moving to electronic records for National Health Services (NHS) are well known but, until now, successful implementation has been elusive. However the combination of Ascribe's wide experience of effectively delivering solutions to the NHS with industry-leading Kofax Capture now gives NHS Trusts a proven route to receiving the full benefits that electronic records can provide. Kofax is delighted to partner with Ascribe to save NHS trusts significant monetary and time value while helping them to achieve their goal to become paperless."

Stephen Critchlow, CEO of Ascribe said, "With pressures on the NHS to be paperless by 2018 and potential savings of £4.4billion being quoted, Ascribe's EDRM accelerator is crucial in helping Trusts to achieve this goal. Our partnership with Kofax enables us to provide real-time electronic information to clinicians and help make better health care decisions. This accelerator provides a useful tool to sit alongside our paper-free strategic solution."

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Notes to Editors
For further information, please contact:
Claire Shuttleworth, Marketing Coordinator, Ascribe Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 870 053 4545
claire.shuttleworth@ascribe.com

About Ascribe
Over 75% of NHS Acute Trusts use Ascribe systems and our commitment to improving healthcare IT has made us a strategic partner for a growing number of Trusts.

Ascribe's clinical systems are robust and scalable, from departmental systems through to strategic enterprise-scale solutions. The company is a Microsoft Gold Partner and has been selected as Microsoft's Public Healthcare - Partner of the Year for 2012. In addition to developing its own solutions, Ascribe provides professional consultancy personnel for Ascribe, Microsoft and other healthcare IT systems. From Electronic Prescribing through to Paperless Clinical Management and even Pharmacy robotic interfaces, Ascribe's breadth of integrated systems has been proven to help Trusts improve their efficiency and cut costs.

"The system paid for itself in two months", Senior NHS Clinical Manager.

Ascribe employs 300 personnel through its operating companies in the UK, Kenya, Australia and New Zealand. For more information, please visit http://www.ascribe.com

About Kofax
Kofax® plc (LSE: KFX) is a leading provider of Capture Enabled BPMTM solutions. These award winning solutions capture and streamline the flow of business critical information throughout an organization in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner, enabling our customers to be more responsive to their constituents and better grow their businesses. Kofax solutions provide a rapid return on investment to more than 20,000 customers in banking, insurance, government, healthcare, business process outsourcing and other markets. Kofax delivers these solutions through its own sales and service organization, and a global network of more than 800 authorized partners in more than 75 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit kofax.com.

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