Orion Health's expansion into Asia Pacific takes shape

Orion Health's expansion into Asia Pacific starting to take shape

Orion Health has secured two significant business wins in China, less than a year after entering the market.

New Zealand's largest privately-owned software exporter is a world leader with its e-Health software and has only recently turned its focus onto mainland China. Its first success in China was an order for 50 licenses of its Rhapsody Integration Engine into the public health and hospital integration sector through local partner Shanghai Kingstar Winning.

Orion Health COO Kimbal Riley said further orders will follow as the project in Shanghai expanded.

"Rolling on from that, we have just won an order with Rhapsody for an 11-hospital integration project in Shenzhen Guangdong province through our partner Beijing Sinodata," he said. "Implementation has already begun at the initial hospital - the 2000 bed Hong Kong University Shenzhen Hospital (Binhai Hospital), which gives some indication of the size and scale of the Chinese market".

Mr Riley said the expansion into the burgeoning Chinese e-Health software market built on the success the company has experienced in North America, Europe and Australia, with Orion Health pursuing the Asian market with already- established beach heads in Singapore and Japan.

"We are delighted with the progress we have made in a very short space of time. Entering a new market of size of China and winning business in less than 12 months is a significant achievement, and a resounding vote of confidence in our products and our strategy", said Mr Riley

"We believe China represents a substantial opportunity for Orion Health, and we are very happy to have made initial inroads into the market in such a short period of time. We are now working through the options for the establishment of an office (or offices) in country over the next 12 months".

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