A team of five full-time Orion Health employees will be assigned to work specifically on priorities set by the South Island Alliance of district health boards as part of a new strategic partnership the two organisations have signed.

Auckland-based vendor Orion Health already provides a substantial portion of the clinical software and technology underlying the five South Island DHBs' infrastructure, including the HealthOne shared primary care record, the Health Connect South secondary care clinical portal and the new South Island Patient Information Care System (SI PICS) it is building to replace a number of patient administration systems.