Aurora Interactive Wins a Comprehensive Contract to Link 7 Hospitals and 14 Health Centers
Another step forward for the practice of telepathology across several sites to optimize expertise and communication. Press release from Aurora Interactive and the Government of Québec for the Québec Health Dossier – Telepathology system:
THE INTEGRATED HEALTH UNIVERSITY NETWORK (IHUN) – LAVAL UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATES IN DIGITAL – ONE STEP FORWARD FOR PATIENTS
MONTREAL (CANADA), January 7, 2010 – Aurora Interactive Ltd., a world leader in digital pathology communications announced today that the company has won a comprehensive purchase agreement for its mScope Clinical and mScope Education communication platforms following a Request for Proposal from the Government of Québec for the Québec Health Dossier – Telepathology system: Information, distribution, viewing and image analysis. The system includes Aurora’s clinical and educational product software used for remote diagnosis and collaboration between pathologists.
“This is the beginning of a new era, one of collaborative pathology which will allow Québec patients treated in the Network’s hospitals and health centers to access the best resources from the Network no matter where they are” mentioned Dr. Bernard Têtu, Pathologist at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ) and Medical Director for the Telepathology Project for the IHUN – Laval University. Moreover, Dr. Têtu added: “The use of digital pathology will allow us to improve the quality of our diagnosis while offering better medical education opportunities by facilitating access to second opinions and by the implementation of a quality control system”.
Mr. Pierre Le Fèvre, Chief Executive Officer for Aurora Interactive on his part declared: “With 21 sites, this is one of the largest global integrations of its kind anywhere in the world and Aurora is excited to be part of it. We are very proud to have won this contact and received the confidence of the IHUN of Laval University and its partners for this project. We have broad global installations in Europe where digital pathology is more widespread and where our system is already used for Electronic Patient Records. We hope that the Network will soon be extended to all Québec hospitals and look forward to our continued growth in North America and beyond”
The Corporation d’hébergement du Québec, as owner of the equipments has made the acquisition of telepathology systems with a view to implement them in 21 different sites.
The mScope platform includes three distinct applications:
1. mScope Education: modules for on-line research publication, teaching for students and interns, continued medical education and quality control;
2. mScope Clinical : modules for remote diagnosis (including those done in real-time), remote expertise (including those for second opinions), the creation of a data base; and finally;
3. Universal mScope viewer: modules to view all images from the hospital information systems network.
About Aurora Interactive Ltd.
Aurora Interactive has developed the leading web based software platform (mScope) for simplification, productivity and ease of communications. mScope’s universal web viewer has collaborative tools to view medical slides and images anytime, anywhere, regardless of file format. The software has three applications to aid digital pathology web based communications needs, mScope Education, mScope Clinical, and mScope Universal Viewer.
Aurora’s mission is to facilitate better patient outcomes, helping members of the medical community achieve their full potential by eliminating the learning, diagnostic and collaborative restrictions posed by time and space. www.aurorainteractive.com
About the Integrated Health University Network (IHUN) – Laval University
The IHUN – Laval University covers six administrative regions in Québec, of which three are remote, one intermediary, one peripheral and one university. The Network includes 83 institutions of which 56 are public and serves a population of 1.7 people over a territory of 157,800 miles2.
The role of the IHUN – LI is to improve access to services, avoid patients’ transfers and offer superspecialized services not offered in remote areas, improve quality of care to patients and improve the synergy between health care professionals.
