Most Interesting Vendor 2012: Orion Health

Chris Hobson, M.D.

Hobson says Orion Health has also helped build patient-center medical homes and accountable care organizations (ACOs), mentioning clients like the Beacon Community of the Inland Northwest, which is focusing on diabetes care and show how improved care can lead to a reduction of ED visits and inpatient admissions. Orion Health enables the capture of core clinical data at the point of care and alerts the physician if a patient has not received a certain intervention like a foot or eye check.

“What ACOs are doing today is likely to be different in three years time, so it’s important that the solutions and toolsets that we provide to ACOs are very easily extensible to meet those changing needs,” says Viskovich.
 
“As a software [company], we see sustainability in the ability to provide more value over and above just connecting stuff, and we see the answer in terms of providing more capabilities,” adds Hobson. “We’ve built a lot of technology that’s enabled us to build web views that otherwise would be a client’s server with more complex legacy architecture. So we’re interesting on the point of view of software capabilities, and the focus on flexibility and integration, which has enabled us to keep up with the tsunami of new requirements that keep coming at us.”