Auckland-based Orion Health has signed one of its first contracts for its new Amadeus precision medicine platform, agreeing with a US-base health insurance company to roll it out to the insurer's three million members.

Amadeus was launched last December as a big data platform to support Orion's move into precision medicine and combines the company's data integration capabilities with technologies such as Apache's Cassandra open source database management system, Apache's Spark big data processing engine and ElasticSearch, an open source search and analytics engine.