New Zealand-owned global health software company Orion Health has announced a partnership with The Medical City (TMC), the premier Philippine health institution.
TMC operates a network of hospitals located in Angeles and Iloilo and medical clinics located mainly in Metro Manila. It will soon be opening hospitals in Clark and Guam. The Medical City main facility along Ortigas Avenue in Pasig City is a world class tertiary care hospital and healthcare complex with 1,000 physicians and 2,200 staff serving some 40,000 in-patients and 400,000 out-patients annually.
Orion Health’s software products are used in more than 30 countries by hundreds of thousands of clinicians to facilitate care for tens of millions of patients.
Orion Health CEO Ian McCrae said Orion Health’s and TMC’s visions are aligned. “TMC’s vision is all about working in partnership with the patient, and we are also focussed on patient-centric care. Our goal is a long lasting partnership with TMC that will enable us to provide better software to other healthcare organisations in South East Asia.”
At the heart of TMC’s service philosophy are new paradigms of hospital care addressing the entire continuum of health needs, and treating the patient as an equal, informed and empowered partner.
“As The Medical City expands its national footprint, it enters into a partnership with global leader Orion Health to build a flexible technology infrastructure that can support physicians and empower our patient partners,” said Dr. Alfredo R. A. Bengzon, TMC’s President and CEO.
“Orion Health’s proven global experience in providing powerful information sharing capabilities and its commitment to quality patient care convinced us that they are indeed suited to help us in delivering care to our patients in today’s changing healthcare landscape,” he added.
TMC has bought Orion Health’s Enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. Orion Health’s solution will provide a unified view of patient data across the healthcare organisation via an easy-to-use web-based interface that is accessible anywhere, anytime. It’s implementation will help to reduce medical errors, increase medical staff efficiency and reduce costs.
To support the partnership Orion Health is opening an office in Manila that will become a South East Asian hub as the company grows and invests in the region.