Orion Health : Granted Health Data Intermediary Certificate by Minnesota Department of Health

Scottsdale, Ariz.- May 9, 2017-Orion Health™, a leader in population health management and healthcare integration solutions, has been granted a certificate of authority to operate as a Health Data Intermediary (HDI) by the Minnesota Department of Health.
Securing certification was in collaboration with Orion partner, Koble-MN, a Minnesota state-certified health information organization (HIO) currently implementing a Minnesota health information exchange (HIE) powered by the Orion Health Amadeus population health and precision medicine platform. Orion Health and Koble-MN work together to help communities across the state of Minnesota build robust healthcare exchanges, connecting clinical, behavioral health, payer, social determinant and other data sources necessary for person-centered care.

Chad Peterson, president and CEO of Koble-MN, said, 'We are thrilled Orion Health has completed the Minnesota HDI certification process, as we continue to work closely with our Orion Health partners to enable exchange across Minnesota, leveraging the state-of-the-art Orion Health Amadeus solution stack.'

A HDI provides technical capabilities or related products and services to enable health information exchange among health care providers that are not related health care entities such as health information service providers, electronic health record vendors, and pharmaceutical electronic data intermediaries.

About Koble-MN
Koble MN is a Minnesota state-certified health information organization offering statewide HIE technology and services within the state of Minnesota and other states across the nation. In addition, Koble provides Tier 1, 2, and 3 support, operations and interface support for several HIEs across the country and due to its success, has been recently awarded the contract to oversee operations for the Iowa Health Information Exchange. The Koble Group includes experienced senior HIT executives, an in-house integration and interface team, project management and implementation services. Participants of the of the Koble HIE benefit from using Orion Health's Amadeus platform and its analytics, care coordination and patient engagement modules.

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Mr Tisdel is currently based in California, where he has been Senior Vice President and CFO at Model N, Inc. (MODN), a revenue management software company which provides solutions for the life science and high tech industries, and which trades on the NYSE. In this role Mr Tisdel drove the business redesign from an on-premise model to a SaaS model. Besides the CFO role at Model N, Mr. Tisdel was CFO of Spigit, Inc and Steelwedge, Inc., as well as holding various senior management roles at PeopleSoft, Inc.

Orion Health CEO, Ian McCrae, says Mr. Tisdel has extensive experience leading high-performing multi-disciplinary, multinational teams in the U.S. enterprise software sector.

'We are fortunate to have Mark join Orion Health at such a pivotal time in our business, as we drive to profitability during this financial year. In addition to his proven financial leadership skills, he has demonstrated capability in governance and investor relations.'

Mr Tisdel says he is excited to be joining Orion Health at a time of great change in the global healthcare sector. 'I look forward to working with Ian, the Board and Senior Leadership team as we position Orion Health as a company at the forefront of data-driven healthcare solutions.'

Mr Tisdel will be moving to New Zealand to take up the role and officially starts in June 2017.

In addition to Mr Tisdel's appointment as CFO, Orion Health has also announced its Chief Operating Officer Graeme Wilson, will be leaving his full time role with the company following a period of transition with Mr Tisdel and newly appointed Executive Vice President Sales, Marketing and Strategy Teri Thomas. Mr Wilson had expressed a desire to spend more time with his family, but will remain involved with Orion Health in a strategic advisory capacity.

Mr McCrae says Mr Wilson has provided an outstanding contribution to the company during his tenure and thanked him for his service. 'Graeme has been an influential leader in our business and has been a tireless advocate of our mission to transform global healthcare. We respect his desire to spend more time with his family, but look forward to his further contribution to Orion Health in an advisory capacity.'

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