Press Release

IRISH EMERGENCY RESPONSE VENTURE PROVIDES OPTIMISED RESCUE DATA FOR €500 MILLION BID.

Monday, 26th July 2010

An Irish entrepreneurial venture, Decisions For Heroes, can now release that its software system was used by CHC to provide optimised rescue data analysis; CHC is the largest commercial helicopter company in the world. The operational analysis software was used by CHC during its successful €500 million bid to provide helicopter rescue for the Irish Coast Guard from 2012.

DUBLIN, IRELAND (26th July 2010) - After the signing of a €500 million contract for the new generation of Sikorsky S92A Search & Rescue helicopters for the Irish Coast Guard, today it was revealed that an Irish entrepreneurial venture, Decisions For Heroes, played an important role in the bid by supporting CHC’s requirements for mission based analytics software. CHC, the largest commercial helicopter company in the world and winners of the contract used the Irish software system to analyse SAR missions, capturing key patterns and trends.

Managing Director of CHC Ireland, Mark Kelly says, "The Decisions For Heroes software allowed my team to analysis rescue mission data very quickly, easily and in great detail. The software was amazingly flexible, D4H are to be commended".

Each CHC aircraft carries paramedics who provide life-saving interventions on their casualties. Director of Decisions For Heroes, Robin Blandford explains how their software works, "CHC were able to automatically analyse SAR mission data to determine the most common injuries treated and medical techniques used".

CHC is known for quickly adopting the new technologies that makes them a leader in their field. While analysis of rescue missions cuts costs and save lives - it is their pilots and crews that routinely demonstrate skill, courage and dedication in undertaking missions in the most testing of conditions.

Decisions For Heroes is a new web-based crew management analysis tool available to all emergency response teams globally. Organisations can instantly get started online at www.decisionsforheroes.com

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For written, TV, or radio interview contact Director, Robin Blandford. Personal mobile +353 86 328 7563 or email robin.blandford@decisionsforheroes.com

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About Decisions For Heroes:
Better decisions save lives. Decisions For Heroes helps emergency services save more lives by making better decisions. Decisions for Heroes is a collaborative rescue team management tool, that helps record and analyse rescue operations. Instead of archiving information as paperwork, the software generate real-time profiles of members, available resources, and experience levels. Decisions for Heroes uses this data to deliver live and intelligent information to the field.

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