Dr Alexis Joannides founded Obex Technologies in 2010 as a means of supporting and further developing the ORION application. ORION emerged in 2009 to address pressing clinical needs within the neurosurgical department at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust to accurately record and maintain a conterminous record of emergency referrals in to the service and advice given. It is a software tool comprising of a database, a user interface, and an analytics package for interrogating the data that has been captured. As the software has been developed with the user experience as one of the primary drivers, the interface is intuitive and efficient. ORION implements an innovative and potentially disruptive approach to managing and exploiting healthcare data across organisations using web technologies, with significant service provision and academic impact. It allows controlled multi-site access for direct care, whilst enabling research and outcome reporting on anonymised data from the same dataset.

With the focussed support of Obex, and academic partnership with the University of Cambridge’s Department of Clinical Neurosciences, ORION was launched as a network in October 2012. Since then it has been successfully implemented across a number of institutions for supporting national registries, emergency referrals and research studies. The network is hosted by the University of Cambridge, which acts as the data processor for collected data, with Obex providing software development and application support.

Expansion to date has been focussed on developing a stable platform for support and development of the products that Obex already offers and in addition to provide the basis for the creation of new products.

Obex aims to continue to develop and support its existing product range whilst applying the technology to specialities adjacent to neurosciences. In particular these include vascular and transplant surgery, oncology and stroke medicine. Of particular interest are those medical specialities where care for any individual patient is likely to be delivered from multiple centres and by multiple disciplines. These specialities, which include trauma rehabilitation, benefit most from the centralised, secure, cloud based approach that the ORION platform offers.

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