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March 31, 2016
Software developer Orion Health (click here) has announced a major contract with an American healthcare insurer, while also confirming it has laid off around a 10th of its US workforce.
Now, about health care costs and an exploitative Wall Street.
March 31, 2016
Software developer Orion Health (click here) has announced a major contract with an American healthcare insurer, while also confirming it has laid off around a 10th of its US workforce.
Orion chief executive Ian McCrae said the deal would see the Auckland-based company's Amadeus precision medicine platform supplied to the as-yet unnamed insurer, which has over 3 million members. No financial details of the deal were released.
"We will be announcing the name [of the insurer] next week once we get through their internal processes," McCrae said. "It's a big payer organisation."
Orion shares, which listed at $5.70 in the firm's 2014 initial public offering, gained 4.2 per cent to close at $3.25 last night.
McCrae said the technology would give the insurer's provider partners access to patient records from all the healthcare facilities at which members had received care....
The ACA has just passed Congress in 2010 and became fully engaged in 2014. There was a section of the law that allowed the healthcare industry to become digital in their records and relationships within the industry. What concerns me is opportunists that want to push their products regardless of cost. In other words, what if Orion decided to place their software with health care insurers because that is where the payment system is conducted. Then by pressure of inefficiency, lack of interface, the entire health care network ultimately will have to change to the insurers software. Orion can provide the software free to the insurers if it will ultimately profit by money that will drive the cost of health care up.
The health care industry does not need state of the art, as USA intelligence should have, so long as it does the job and works.
There are different software for different functions, but, ultimately hospitals are talking to each other, insurance agencies, drug stores; so the enormity of software is considerable.
Scottsdale is noted on the Orion website. (click here)
Scottsdale Health Partners, Faron Thompson, COO (click here)
TigerText Health (click here)
The ACA has just passed Congress in 2010 and became fully engaged in 2014. There was a section of the law that allowed the healthcare industry to become digital in their records and relationships within the industry. What concerns me is opportunists that want to push their products regardless of cost. In other words, what if Orion decided to place their software with health care insurers because that is where the payment system is conducted. Then by pressure of inefficiency, lack of interface, the entire health care network ultimately will have to change to the insurers software. Orion can provide the software free to the insurers if it will ultimately profit by money that will drive the cost of health care up.
The health care industry does not need state of the art, as USA intelligence should have, so long as it does the job and works.
There are different software for different functions, but, ultimately hospitals are talking to each other, insurance agencies, drug stores; so the enormity of software is considerable.
Scottsdale is noted on the Orion website. (click here)
Scottsdale Health Partners, Faron Thompson, COO (click here)
TigerText Health (click here)
