Corporate
A message from our CEO
"The company's performance for the first half of 2010 has been healthy - with new deals and a more positive global economy driving the business expansion.
We are expecting our performance in revenue terms for the first six months of the financial year to be an 80% increase on the same period last year. This has been driven by strong performances across the globe with highlight wins in the USA, France, the Middle East and Singapore. In the last few months we have hired more than 70 additional staff and are looking to open up several new offices.
As a company, we’re growing and expanding but also continually innovating to improve our products, our processes and our service to you.
We thrive on making a difference to people’s lives. It has been a conscious decision for Orion Health to focus only on healthcare – because like you, it is what we know best and what we care about most.
It is also, however, thanks to our customers' desire for innovative, market leading eHealth solutions that we continue to grow our presence on the world stage, and we are grateful to you for your continued loyalty,"
Ian McCrae, Founder and CEO, Orion Health
New Product Releases
Upcoming Rhapsody 4.1 release
Orion Health is pleased to pre-announce the availability of the next release of its Rhapsody Integration Engine software in November 2010. This version will speed interface development and allow our OEM partners more options to deploy Rhapsody.
The new testing framework allows the unit testing of filters within the configuration. This not only accelerates the initial development and testing cycle, but also saves time when interface changes are required in the future.
OEM Partners will notice more deployment options – including an option to silently install Rhapsody and their custom configuration.
Drew Ivan, Product Manager for Rhapsody, says the new features have "greatly accelerated internal development and created an audible ‘wow’ during early previews."
Customers News
Ochsner Health System Connects Community Physicians to Electronic Medical Records
Ochsner Health System, a non-profit, academic and multi-specialty healthcare delivery system in Louisiana is connecting thousands of physicians in the broader community to patient medical records.
Based on secure web-based Health Information Exchange (HIE) technology from Orion Health, Ochsner can now provide community and referring physicians across the region with access to information about patient care conducted within Ochsner Health System. Healthcare providers can receive customized alerts of patient status and results and access a more complete patient record to improve clinical decision-making and ease care transitions regardless of where a patient received care within the health system.
Read the full press release...
Maine’s HealthInfoNet Selects Orion Health as Primary Vendor for HIE Deployment
Maine’s HealthInfoNet has selected Orion Health as the primary technology provider for their statewide health information exchange (HIE). The HIE currently involves six healthcare organizations and many of their affiliated hospitals and physician practices that annually care for more than half of the residents of Maine. Orion Health participated in the pilot phase of the implementation as a sub-contractor and after a complete re-evaluation of all vendors Orion Health was awarded a contract directly with HealthInfoNet as their primary vendor for Maine’s statewide HIE deployment.
Read the full press release...
Detroit Physician Group Launches Healthcare Data Exchange
Wayne State University Physician Group, a non-profit, multi-specialty physician practice group which operates over 100 medical practices and provides primary and specialty medical services to more than 670,000 patients annually throughout Detroit, Michigan, has selected the Orion Health Rhapsody Integration Engine to help create an exchange of clinical and demographic data between hospitals, medical centers and their own offices.
Read full press release here...
Orion in Good Health After Singapore Deal
Orion Health is on track to turn over $100 million of business and says it has the potential to build a billion-dollar company from its Mt Eden headquarters.
The latest rung on the ladder to reaching that goal - chief executive Ian McCrae has previously given it a 2016 deadline - is a successful bid as part of a consortium led by Accenture for a S$200 million ($205 million) national health records system in Singapore.
Read full NZ Herald article here...
Orion Health Portal in Glasgow Praised in Scottish Government Report
A recent parliamentary committee report on the use of health IT in Scotland confirmed that the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde clinical portal is widely utilized and delivering value for a broad user base across the health board, which runs 13 hospitals and covers 1.6 million patients.
The committee examined the use of the technology and progress made to date nationwide– in particular, the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Clinical Portal, which uses the Orion Health suite of products, was highlighted for the benefits delivered.
Read full press release here...
Hunter New England – Disease Management
Hunter New England Area Health services a population of over 700,000 people across 1500sq miles - an area the size of the United Kingdom. The demand for services across this large area presents unique challenges.
Hunter New England recognized that the majority of care requirements within their area health service were being utilized by a small percentage of the population who suffer from Chronic Diseases such as Diabetes, COPD, CHF, and Asthma. They embarked upon an initiative to better manage patients with Chronic Disease to reduce the amount of Admissions due to complications and non-compliance.
In late 2009, Hunter New England Area Health Service applied for funding from the Federal and State Governments under the National Broadband Networks Initiative to implement a Tele-Health project that will include the utilization of home based medical devices that will be used to monitor and update specific aspects of their population’s health. Research has shown that close preventative monitoring of specific health conditions can offset presentations to Emergency and ensuing Admissions to secondary care centers.
Subsequent to this, Hunter New England Area Health Service sent a representative to Alberta Health Services, in Calgary to gain an overview of the solution that Orion Health has implemented in that province, paying particular interest to the Diabetes Hypertension and Cholesterol clinic.
Earlier this year, Hunter New England was awarded $5M dollars as part of the Digital Rural Networks federal grant. They are planning to roll out area wide disease management solutions including telehealth program with peripheral devices etc.
Auckland DHB’s join forces for joint eReferrals project
Orion Health and HealthLink have joined forces to deliver a regional electronic Referral solution (eReferrals) that efficiently and reliably transfers referral messages from primary care providers in the community to secondary care services across the Auckland, Counties Manukau, Waitemata District Health Boards.
Working with the DHBs they are committed to helping to streamline the information transfer between care providers in the Auckland Region, which will help to reduce duplication of effort, minimise errors and improve patient care.
Using this regional eReferrals solution, clinicians will be better equipped to efficiently process and manage patient referrals and make better informed clinical decisions based on complete, consistent, accurate, and standards based information.
Read full story here...
Upcoming Events
Oslo eHealth Forum
October 28, 2010
HINZ
November 2-4, 2010
Get ready for HINZ 2010 - follow us on Twitter #HINZ2010
UK User Group
November 3-4, 2010
North America Rhapsody User Group
April 4-8, 2011
For further event information, please visit our website...
Customer Support Services
Thank you to all of our customers who responded to our customer satisfaction survey in July. We value your feedback and your responses are a catalyst for improvements to our business.
As a thank you for completing the survey we gave away an iPod Touch. The winner of the iPod was Rob Freeman from Kettering General Hospital in the UK.
Partner Announcements
Orion Health Signs Reseller Agreement with NTT Data Japan
Orion Health Ltd, a global leader in health care IT, has signed a deal with NTT DATA Corporation, a leading IT service and solution provider in Japan.
Under the deal, NTT DATA will distribute Orion Health® Rhapsody® throughout Japan, enabling health care organizations to seamlessly transfer information both internally and externally, without the need to replace their existing information systems.
Like the rest of the world, Japan is faced with an increase in electronic health systems, and private and public hospitals and health organizations are looking to optimize the way they share, move and use clinical data to improve all aspects of their business and the welfare of their patient’s health. The growth of regional and national initiatives in Japan has increased demand for a flexible, robust and secure solution for sharing increasing volumes of information between healthcare organizations.
Webinars
Learn How Concerto Clinical Workstation Benefits Kiwi Clinicians
Watch the pre-recorderd webinar (requires registration)...
Future Proof Your Trust with a Secure, Trust-Wide Integrated Electronic Health Record
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Other News
New Zealand Earthquake Appeal Donation
In support of the recent earthquake in the Canterbury region, Orion Health matched the contribution of any staff member who donated to the New Zealand Red Cross Canterbury Earthquake Appeal. In total we donated NZ$2,540.00. Our thoughts go out to family, friends, colleagues and customers affected by the quake.
Adventure Racing World Champs - Spain
If you’re an avid Adventure Racing fan you may have caught up on the disappointing news that one of the team members, Nathan Peterson had an accident during day two and the team have pulled out of the competition. Nathan is out of danger but we wish him a speedy recovery and wish the rest of the competitor’s good luck!
Follow the team on their website...
From the team at Orion Health we wish you all the best.
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