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Dr. Chris Hobson is Chief Medical Officer for Orion Health. As a primary care practitioner and internist also certified in healthcare informatics, Chris brings international clinical, technical and policy level expertise to Orion Health's suite of integration technologies for health care organizations of all types. From his background in both developing and implementing successful health information technology, Chris is well versed in a wide range of hospital, specialist health care and physician HIT systems. His particular areas of interest and expertise are interoperability and disease management solutions. Chris was the program lead for integrated care and IT at Counties Manukau District Health Board, a large tertiary hospital and health payer organization in Auckland, New Zealand. He oversaw the entire system adoption process, from developing the region's IT strategy, to the selection, development and implementation of the software. Successes included development and implementation of the first web-based disease management and child immunization programs of their kind in New Zealand. In patient systems developed include a hospital wide system for electronic discharges used by physicians and the emergency room white board. Chris is a fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and a founding member of the HL7 New Zealand Steering Committee. In 2006, Chris was appointed to the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) as one of their interoperability expert panel members. Chris has presented at numerous conferences globally such as HIMS 2006, TEPR 2002, 2004 and 2005, MS-HUG 2001. | 