The Red Herring editorial team carefully evaluated the finalists on both quantitative and qualitative criteria including financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management and execution of strategy. Orion Health's CEO, Ian McCrae, welcomed the news saying, "In the past twelve months, Orion Health has achieved several major milestones. We are doubling our software development efforts here in New Zealand and continuing to win major contracts throughout Europe and North America, and more recently in the Middle East and Asia."

"The Red Herring Award is recognition of the innovation and smart technology coming out of New Zealand" said McCrae.

Recently, the company received $4.78m in funding from Technology New Zealand, forming part of a $9.6m project fast-tracking its development of a revolutionary health IT product, expanding its business into new sectors in this market and doubling its New Zealand-based development staff numbers.

About Orion Health
Orion Health's easy-to-use solutions and applications improve patient care and clinical decision-making by providing integrated health data in a single, unified view. By enhancing existing healthcare information systems, Orion Health's Rhapsody integration engine, Concerto physician portal, and workflow solutions provide healthcare workers with easy access to patient data and trends, and reduce errors and omissions by streamlining information transfer.

Worldwide, Orion Health is implementing health information communities involving over 35 million patients with tens of thousands of active users. Orion Health’s partners include leading health system integrators and IT vendors such as Accenture, IBM, Oracle Corporation and others. Orion Health has more than 1,000 clients around the world, including the New Zealand Ministry of Health, Auckland District Health Board, HealthAlliance, New South Wales, UCLA(USA), Capital Health(Canada) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).