Paul Viskovich, President Orion Health North America

Paul Viskovich is responsible for Orion Health's operations in the United States and Canada, building trusted relationships with both clients and business partners.

Paul has more than 20 years experience in the IT industry and has held senior sales, marketing and management positions with Fujitsu, Amdahl Corporation, DMR Consulting and Eagle Technology Group within the Asia Pacific Region. He has several key tertiary qualifications in the information technology field.

Chris Hobson, Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Chris Hobson is Chief Medical Officer for Orion Health. As a primary care practitioner and internist also certified in healthcare informatics, Chris brings international clinical, technical and policy level expertise to Orion Health's suite of integration technologies for health care organizations of all types. From his background in both developing and implementing successful health information technology, Chris is well versed in a wide range of hospital, specialist health care and physician HIT systems. His particular areas of interest and expertise are interoperability and disease management solutions.

Chris was the program lead for integrated care and IT at Counties Manukau District Health Board, a large tertiary hospital and health payer organization in Auckland, New Zealand. He oversaw the entire system adoption process, from developing the region's IT strategy, to the selection, development and implementation of the software. Successes included development and implementation of the first web-based disease management and child immunization programs of their kind in New Zealand. In patient systems developed include a hospital wide system for electronic discharges used by physicians and the emergency room white board.

Chris is a fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and a founding member of the HL7 New Zealand Steering Committee. In 2006, Chris was appointed to the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) as one of their interoperability expert panel members. Chris has presented at numerous conferences globally such as HIMS 2006, TEPR 2002, 2004 and 2005, MS-HUG 2001.

John Lightfoot, CTO

John Lightfoot joined Orion Health in 2006 and is responsible for North American product management, customer solution architecture, and standards integration.  He brings a wealth of experience to Orion, with over 20 years of experience with health information technology leaders such as Partners Healthcare, MIT, Healthvision and CSC.

John graduated from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is active in HIMSS and HL7.

Megan Tobin-Jones, VP Marketing

Megan Tobin-Jones is an experienced communicator whose diverse background spans a range of marketing and management functions. For the last 13 years her passion has been technology and she has worked with national and multinational internet, infrastructure and software firms along with a leading high-tech direct retailer in her constant quest to love her inner geek.

Megan believes marketing needs to identify and meet both customer and company needs, provide creative vision and innovation, and implement positive change. Nowhere is that positive change more needed or more valuable than in the HealthIT sector, where Megan feels she has found the her niche. Improving efficiencies AND saving lives. It doesn't get much more valuable than that.

And while she's launched several innovative products, been part of successful IPOs and acquisitions and helped venture capitalists spend and make millions, she still thinks her greatest success are her three beautiful daughters who, like her, are inquisitive extroverts.

Michael Burke, VP Sales

Michael is responsible  for leading sales across North America, with a focus on delivering innovative technology solutions designed to improve communication processes in the healthcare industry.  Michael brings 20 years of experience in the information technology space with over a decade focused on the healthcare market, both provider and payer.

Prior to joining Orion Health , Michael began his career as a CPA in public accounting and held several key positions since, one of which earned him a nomination from INC. Magazine as Entrepreneur of the Year for his role as founder of a software company.

Art Ramos, Customer Support Manager

Art Ramos is responsible for all Rhapsody integration projects and services in the United States as well as all customer support for North America.

Art has over 10 years IT experience with an emphasis on system integration and joined Orion Health's North American team in February of 2006.  He has held senior consulting positions with several IT consulting firms and was a product architect with SeeBeyond/Sun Microsystems prior to joining Orion Health.

Francine Kruger, Program Management Office

Francine Kruger works in the Edmonton office where she is responsible for the Project Management Office - Best Practices/Edmonton Office Team Lead.

Francine joined Orion Health in September 2005 and has 8 years experience in communications. Prior to that, Francine held positions in Financial and Insurance as a Developer, Team Lead, Solution Architect, Pre-sales Support, Business Analyst and Project Management.

Cristina Laurent, Project Director

Ms. Cristina Laurent; MBA, MHSA, & PMP our Orion Health North American Project Director joined Orion Health in July 2006; currently provides oversight to all Concerto North American Projects.

Cristina represents one of our experienced professionals, with over 12 years of progressive experience in health care consulting and Big Four project management nationwide to Providers and Payers.

She has provided her experience successfully in various capacities and roles providing value in the following areas: Managed Care and Provider process reengineering, process factory in transformation, IT configuration management, business continuity disaster recovery, healthcare systems and vendor selection through implementation activities, application & implementation alignment, HIPAA transactions, PMO work, pursuit work, benchmarking, value management, content management, MCO start-ups, Sarbanes Oxley 404,and revenue cycle work.

She values an organization committed to success that values their employees and strives to engender innovation in her personal and professional encounters.