Aurora

Aurora is an electronic health record software designed specifically for hospital-based clinics and researchers. According to the vendor, it provides clinicians and medical staff with a comprehensive view of patient data, enabling informed and prompt decision-making. Aurora combines the needs of clinicians and medical researchers into a single solution, particularly for genetic-based diseases. The vendor claims that this software is suitable for hospital-based clinics, researchers in genetic-based diseases, clinicians in chronic disease management, cardiologists, and IVF practitioners.

Key Features

IVF Cycle Management: Aurora offers electronic flow sheets for managing the entire patient IVF cycle, replacing paper charts, customized databases, or generalized EMR packages. According to the vendor, this feature aims to enhance patient outcomes and practice efficiencies.

Cardiomyopathy Data Management: With Aurora, clinicians can access and analyze live patient data from various sources, including phenotype, genotype, tests, family history, and lab results. The vendor states that this feature facilitates effective patient care management in the field of cardiomyopathy.

Practice Management: Aurora provides comprehensive reports on personnel efficacy and key metrics for patient and clinic success. It also offers a portal for patients to view their record status and enables communication between patients and clinicians. Additionally, the vendor claims that this feature generates patient or referral letters from customizable templates.

Notifications and Appointments: According to the vendor, this feature sends email notifications to internal personnel to stay informed about regular or urgent happenings. Aurora also includes a calendar of activity by provider or procedure, making it easy to assign next appointments for patients.

Billing and System Administration: Aurora simplifies billing by creating records for all procedures that integrate into financial software. The vendor states that it allows easy management of software features through tables by site personnel.

Lab Management: Aurora tracks egg/embryo evolution and displays the active status of events and procedures. It also manages the inventory of patient-stored biologic material, such as a biobank for genetics or frozen embryos in an IVF clinic. The vendor claims that this feature generates reports on the effectiveness of protocols, personnel, and equipment.

Visual Reporting and Review: According to the vendor, Aurora provides comprehensive insight into complex patient data through color-coded graphs, charts, and tables. This feature aims to enable information sharing for review and preparation for the next treatment. It also allows quick access for care-specific collection of key data points during patient visits.

Family History and Pedigree: Aurora tracks the medical history across all members of a patient's family and builds an integrated pedigree of genotype, phenotype, and medical test measurements of all extended family members. The vendor states that this feature offers dashboards to see patient, family, or clinic status or progress over time at a glance.

Compliance and Research: Aurora allows easy sorting and querying of data for research and quality assurance projects. The vendor claims that it requires mandatory electronic sign-off on certain entry points to ensure patient safety. This feature also provides an encrypted HIPAA mode to de-identify patient data for printing or emailing patient files.

Data Ownership and Integration: According to the vendor, Aurora ensures that all data is owned by the clinical practice and accessible in-house. It integrates with existing systems for labs and test data to provide orders and requests. This feature aims to support the integration of data from disparate sources and formats for a holistic view of patient health.