Roche Selects ICON as Technology Provider

Roche has selected ICON plc as its technology partner for storing and managing medical images from clinical research programs. Roche is using ICON’s MIRA (Medical Image Review and Analysis) software as the company’s central repository for medical images. MIRA provides functionality for imaging and clinical data management, image analysis, project management and document management. Roche is implementing MIRA in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, which provides 24/7 access to imaging data.
 
Dr. Gudrun Zahlman, leader of Imaging Infrastructure at Roche, said, “We committed to ICON and MIRA after a one year pilot program. The comprehensive functionality of MIRA, the U.S. and EU redundancy of the data, and the responsive nature of the ICON staff, proved the best fit for Roche’s needs. Additionally, we have achieved the seamless integration of images hosted in MIRA with Roche’s clinical data repository and data mining tools for trial decision making, and have integrated third party image analysis software within MIRA for quantitative biomarker research.”
 
“We are delighted to have been selected as a technology partner by the Roche informatics team and to be involved with such a collaborative and forward-thinking group,” said Andrew Kraus, executive vice president and chief technology officer at ICON Medical Imaging. “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.”