Healthcare company Roche has recently selected ICON’s MIRA software as the company's central repository for medical images.
ICON plc is a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The company’s MIRA software is the core application used by ICON Medical Imaging in its daily operations.
Officials said that MIRA offers functionality for imaging and clinical data management, image analysis, project management and document management.
By implementing MIRA in a Software as a Service model, Roche will get 24/7 access to imaging data from anywhere in the world. It will also be able to eliminate the technology costs associated with purchasing and maintaining an image management system in-house.
Company officials have confirmed that ICON is the first medical imaging provider to offer clients SaaS solutions for their image management needs.
In a press release, Andrew Kraus, Executive Vice President and CTO at ICON Medical Imaging, said, "MIRA's superior imaging capabilities, and fault tolerance mechanisms, made it an ideal solution to offer clients in a SaaS framework. MIRA's extensible architecture also enables plug-in modules for advanced analysis. Today's announcement is another good example of the innovation that ICON is bringing to the drug development process and we look forward to building on our close technology partnership with Roche."
"We committed to ICON and MIRA after a one year pilot program. The comprehensive functionality of MIRA, the US and EU redundancy of the data, and the responsive nature of the ICON staff, proved the best fit for Roche's needs,” commented Dr. Gudrun Zahlman, Leader Imaging Infrastructure at Roche.
In related news, Roche has deployed Google apps for employees.
Edited by
Rich Steeves
