Orion Health Announces New Marketing Leadership; Christopher Ward Joins as Senior Vice President of Global Marketing

Santa Monica, California (Vocus/PRWEB) January 25, 2011

Orion Health, Inc., global leaders in Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions, announces the appointment of Christopher Ward as senior vice president of Global Marketing. Mr. Ward has 14 years of marketing and healthcare experience and most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer for GE Healthcare’s IT business. Ward will oversee the development and management of marketing efforts to continue the company’s drive toward delivering innovative HIE and Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions and supporting Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) in continuing their goal of improved coordination and quality of care.

Paul Viskovich, Orion Health’s President of North America says Mr. Ward’s appointment is a strategic step in evolving Orion Health’s senior leadership worldwide and strengthening communications both internally and externally supporting growth in the company and the companies’ leadership in the market.

“The healthcare IT market is a dynamic and rapidly changing space. Continuing to grow the capability of our senior management team helps us refine our focus on meeting the needs of current and future healthcare organizations, such as ACOs. Governments and private healthcare organizations are rapidly investing in health data integration, HIEs and EHRs, and rely on the knowledge Orion Health provides from years of specializing in clinical integration projects.”

Mr. Ward recently worked for General Electric’s $ 17B healthcare division where he helped lead much of the business unit’s marketing transformation, beginning in 2003. Most recently, he served as the Chief Marketing Officer for its EMR, PACS and IT product lines. He led marketing operations for 1,700 employees globally to include all functional learning and development. Mr. Ward also created and led the marketing research department for the $ 3.5B US radiology business unit and producing an 11 percent increase in sales win rates.

Mr. Ward remarks, “The business of health care has reached the moment where the performance and efficiency of our care networks now depends on the integrity of their technical foundations. With its remarkable approach to the development of highly functional, clinically-attuned software, Orion Health is bringing real-world usefulness and fresh capabilities to healthcare organizations.”

Orion Health has strengthened its position significantly in past year, experiencing growth in both revenue and team members, growing its staff by more than 50 percent in fiscal year 2010-2011 and revenue for the first half of the 2010- 2011 fiscal year was up 80 percent on the same period last year. Orion Health’s industry-leading record of 22 Health Information Exchange and Electronic Health Record sites across 12 countries brings diverse, proven and innovative performance to its current set of solution offerings.

About Orion Health Inc.

Orion Health™ is the leading Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution provider with expertise in clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector. Orion Health’s easy-to-use solutions and applications improve patient care and clinical decision making by enabling the exchange of healthcare information among disparate systems and providing integrated health data in a single, unified view. By extending existing healthcare information systems, the Orion Health™ Rhapsody Integration Engine and workflow solutions provide healthcare workers with easy access to patient data and trends, and reduce errors and omissions by streamlining information transfer. The HIE and EHR also supports Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) continuing their goal of improved care coordination, cost savings and better quality of care.

Worldwide, Orion Health has deployed health information communities involving over 35 million patients with hundreds of thousands of active clinical users including Maine’s HealthInfoNet, Alberta Health Services and Spain’s IB Salut. Orion Health’s partners include leading health system integrators and IT vendors such as Accenture, Allscripts, IBM, Oracle, Philips and others. Orion Health has more than 1,000 clients around the world, including Lahey Clinic, Ochsner Health System, UCLA Medical Center, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Spain’s IB Salut, South Eastern Norwegian Regional Health Authority, New Zealand Ministry of Health. Orion Health is a preferred Canada Health Infoway Solution. More information can be found at http://www.orionhealth.com.

Orion Health and Rhapsody are registered trademarks of Orion Health Inc, its parent/or its affiliates. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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