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Clinical Consulting

The Clinical Consultants at Orion Health are a team of practicing physicians with worldwide expertise in healthcare organizations, healthcare processes, and health informatics.

Orion Health's Clinical Consultants are all qualified healthcare professionals who understand the real problems faced by physicians and healthcare managers planning and implementing information technology in a healthcare environment.

Our Clinical Consultants offer the following professional services:

  • Design and Implementation Consulting
  • Ensuring Orion Health's clinical solutions meet your healthcare organization's objectives
  • Ensuring maximum physician buy in using proven implementation methodologies
  • Assistance with Patient Privacy, Security and Confidentiality
  • "Clinical Champion" programs to increase staff awareness and buy-in for physician information systems
  • Assisting organizations and their physicians in determining their clinical information system strategy
  • Business process mapping and user requirements analysis
  • Facilitate exchange of information, ideas, and experiences between our customers

Clinical Information Systems for Healthcare Organizations

We have domain expertise in:

  • Hospital Clinical Information Systems
  • Regional Electronic Health Records
  • Integrated Care
  • Disease Management/Clinical Pathways
  • Computerized Practitioner Order Entry
  • Pan-Community Health Solutions
  • Cancer Information Systems

Clinical Workflow Analysis / Design

  • Change Management Strategies
  • Implications of new physician information systems for healthcare organizations
  • Value Assessment

Orion Health can assist with the following:

  • Design of the solution's clinical architecture
  • Mapping of any supporting Business Processes

 

Clinical Consultants

The Clinical Consulting team are regular presenters at conferences around the world such as HIMSS, TEPR, HIC, HINZ, E-Health, Healthcare Computing and TEHRE, and are also active participants in standards development with organizations such as HL7. Members of the team are also university lecturers to Health Informatics diplomas/degrees.

Orion Health has Clinical Consultants based worldwide, including in North America, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Dr Chris Hobson - BMedSci, MB,ChB Otago, DipHInf, FRNZCGP
Clinical Director (North America)

Dr Chris Hobson is a clinical consultant for Orion Health based in North America, having been closely involved in several successful projects for Orion Health in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Dr Hobson has special interests in the Orion Health solutions for Integrated Care, Disease Management and Clinical Decision Support.

Prior to joining Orion Health, Dr Hobson was a Business Development Manager (Information Technology and Integrated Care) for Counties Manukau District Health Board (Auckland, NZ). He has ten years experience as a family physician and six years of hospital medicine and academic research in Auckland. He was founding Chair of the New Zealand HL7 Health Users Group and is a member of the ASTM E13 Health Informatics Committee.

 

Angela de Zwart - MPH, RGON
Clinical Consultant

Angela is a specialist healthcare consultant with Orion Health, based in Auckland. Angela has a background in ED nursing, Public Health research and clinical information systems implementation. Prior to joining Orion Health, Angela worked as a Project Leader for the implementation of clinical information systems at Waitemata District Health Board. Angela has a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of Auckland and is a Registered Nurse.