ORU Nouvelle Aquitaine

What ORU Nouvelle Aquitaine does

ORU Nouvelle Aquitaine is a Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire (GCS), a French public health cooperation structure, that operates as the regional observatory for emergency medicine across the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Founded in 2016 through the merger of three pre-existing regional observatories (ORU Aquitaine started in 2013, ORU Poitou-Charentes, and ORU Limousin), the organization serves healthcare establishments, SAMU centers, SMUR units, and the Agence Régionale de Santé (ARS) across 12 departments covering approximately 6 million inhabitants. Its mandate is to transform emergency medicine data — primarily RPU (Résumé de Passages aux Urgences) records — into operational tools that improve patient care coordination and emergency care organization.

The organization's product portfolio is centered on interconnected digital platforms for emergency data collection, resource management, and care pathway coordination. The core technology is the ROR (Répertoire Opérationnel des Ressources), a national resource directory that catalogs healthcare offerings, capacities, and competencies across establishments. This is supplemented by an expanding suite of operational tools: Espace Pro ORU NA (launching June 2026) is a unified portal consolidating dashboards; Live Urgences displays real-time emergency department occupancy refreshed every 10 minutes; Veille ORU NA handles real-time declaration and tracking of healthcare difficulties and alerts; Panorama RH provides medical demographics analytics; and Tableau de bord BJML forecasts hospitalization needs. Together these tools process over 1.6 million annual emergency visits across 65 emergency services, 48 SMUR sites, and 13 SAMU centers in the region.

ORU Nouvelle Aquitaine is financed through public funding from ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine and financial contributions from member healthcare establishments operating under the GCS legal framework. Services are provided to authorized healthcare professionals at no direct cost as regional public health infrastructure. The organization employs approximately 20 staff (grown from 4 in 2013), combining digital platform delivery with on-the-ground coordination through CMST coordinators and territorial bed management animators, and participates in the FEDORU national federation for methodology harmonization.

Name

ORU Nouvelle Aquitaine

Legal name

GCS Observatoire Régional des Urgences Nouvelle Aquitaine

Website

https://oruna.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ORU Nouvelle Aquitaine is a French regional health cooperation group (GCS) that operates as the mandated observatory for emergency medicine, providing real-time data dashboards, resource directories, and care coordination tools to healthcare establishments, SAMU/SMUR services, and ARS across Nouvelle-Aquitaine's 12 departments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regional Health Observatory & Emergency Medicine Data Analytics

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHLALAJAJ

Tele-ER / Emergency Department Virtual Triage & Diversion Platforms

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Telehealth Platforms/Urgent Care & On-Demand Triage Telehealth Platforms

SECONDARYHLALABAH

Care Navigation, Referral & Digital Front Door Platforms

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Telehealth Platforms/Provider-Integrated Virtual Care Platforms (Health Systems/Clinics)

Keywords

• Emergency medicine data
• Healthcare resource coordination
• Regional health observatory
• Hospital bed management
• Emergency care analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Bordeaux

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Public funding from ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Core operational funding provided by the Agence Régionale de Santé (Regional Health Agency) of Nouvelle-Aquitaine
2. Member establishment contributions: Financial contributions from healthcare establishments that are members of GCS ORU Nouvelle Aquitaine

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ORU Nouvelle Aquitaine operates as a regional health observatory that transforms emergency medicine data (RPU - Résumé de Passages aux Urgences) into actionable digital tools and operational services for healthcare establishments, SAMU, SMUR, and regional health authorities in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its core offerings include the Espace Pro ORU NA professional portal, the ROR resource directory, real-time occupancy and bed availability dashboards, healthcare difficulty alert systems, workforce analytics, and territorial coordination services supporting emergency care organization across 12 departments.

Product overview

ORU Nouvelle Aquitaine operates as a regional health observatory offering a portfolio of interconnected digital tools centered on emergency medicine data, resource management, and care pathway coordination. The core platform is the Espace Pro ORU NA—a unified professional portal launching June 2026 that consolidates all regional operational tools. This sits alongside the ROR (Répertoire Opérationnel des Ressources), the national resource directory ORU NA maintains for describing healthcare offer and capacities. Key sub-products include Live Urgences (real-time emergency occupancy), Veille ORU NA (health alert system), Panorama RH (workforce analytics), Tableau de bord BJML (hospitalization need forecasting), Radars des Urgences (patient tracking), and Audit Bed Blocker (bed turnover analysis). The portfolio also includes innovation outputs such as Base Ortho, a trauma management knowledge base. ORU NA serves healthcare establishments, SAMU/SMUR services, and regional health authorities across 12 departments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Espace Pro ORU NA A unified digital platform for health professionals in Nouvelle-Aquitaine that consolidates regional operational tools including real-time emergency dashboards, bed availability tracking, health difficulty declarations, and ROR capacity data into a single portal accessible via ESEA regional authentication.
• ROR (Répertoire Opérationnel des Ressources) The Répertoire Opérationnel des Ressources is a national resource directory that catalogs, maintains quality, and disseminates healthcare offer description data including operational activities, equipment, bed capacities, and competencies across health establishments, with ORU NA managing the regional Nouvelle-Aquitaine instance.
• Live Urgences A real-time emergency department dashboard that displays patient numbers and occupancy rates by department and service, updated every 10 minutes from extended RPU (Résumés de Passage aux Urgences) data for healthcare professionals.
• Veille ORU NA A real-time health monitoring and alert system that enables declaration and visualization of health system tensions, alerts, white plans, temporary delays, and disruptions across emergency services, SAMU, SMUR, and care pathways.
• Panorama RH An HR analytics dashboard providing objective data on medical demographics in regional emergency services, enabling identification of staffing gaps and workforce planning.
• Tableau de bord BJML A bed management dashboard providing estimates of hospitalization needs from emergency departments for the coming week, supporting capacity planning for healthcare establishments.
• Radars des Urgences An emergency radar tool displaying real-time patient counts present in emergency departments across the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
• Tableau de bord Lits Dispo A real-time bed availability dashboard showing available hospital beds by establishment, territory, and region to support patient flow management.
• Audit Bed Blocker A diagnostic tool to identify and analyze bed blockers—patients occupying beds beyond medical necessity—thereby improving hospital bed turnover and care pathway fluidity.
• Base Ortho A digital orthopedic knowledge base developed at CH Angoulême, providing standardized trauma management protocols, diagnostic criteria, transfer conditions, and pre-arrival procedures accessible online and via smartphone for emergency and orthopedic teams.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2.5% increase in emergency visits tracked and analyzed in 2024
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and supportive.

• ARS Nouvelle-AquitainecoreOthersPrimary institutional partner providing financial support and strategic direction. ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine funds ORU NA operations and exercises regulatory oversight for regional emergency care organization.
• FEDORUcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational Federation of Regional Emergency Observatories. ORU NA participates in FEDORU methodological workgroups and contributes to national harmonization of emergency care observation practices.
• GRADeS ESEAcoreTechnology or IntegrationGroupement Régional d'Appui au Développement de l'e-Santé operates the ESEA regional digital health portal providing authentication infrastructure (CAS SSO) for ORU NA tools including Espace Pro and ROR National.
• GCS ORU Nouvelle Aquitaine (member establishments)coreOthersLegal entity comprising member healthcare establishments contributing financially and participating in regional emergency care coordination through the Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire framework.
• ATIH (Agence Technique de l'Information sur l'Hospitalisation)supportiveStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational technical agency providing RPU quality financing methodology and hospital information standards that ORU NA implements for regional data quality monitoring.
• ANS (Agence Numérique en Santé)supportiveTechnology or IntegrationNational Digital Health Agency managing ROR National development and national health data standards. ORU NA participates in ROR National development groups representing regional operational requirements.
• Healthcare Federations (FHF, FHP, FEHAP)supportiveOthersNational hospital federations (Fédération Hospitalière de France, Fédération de l'Hospitalisation Privée, Fédération des Etablissements d'Hospitalisation à but non Lucratif) collaborating on emergency care organization and quality standards.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• ATIH (Agence Technique de l'Information sur l'Hospitalisation): National agency defining hospital information standards (including RPU methodology) that ORU NA implements. A broader, federally mandated incumbent at the national level with overlapping data-governance function.
• TeleTracking Technologies: US-headquartered real-time hospital capacity and patient flow platform (bed management, transfer center, command center). Operates in the same functional area as ORU NA's Lits Dispo and Radars des Urgences tools, but as a commercial incumbent at broader scale.
• Dedalus: European health-IT vendor providing hospital information systems, care coordination, and public-health data platforms to French and EU hospitals. Overlaps with ORU NA on ROR maintenance, hospital data integration, and regional health data aggregation.
• Maincare Solutions: French hospital information systems and regional e-health platform provider. Comparable to ORU NA on integrated care-pathway, bed management, and regional health data modules serving public-sector hospital customers.
• Santé Publique France: National public health agency aggregating regional health surveillance and epidemiology data. While national in scope and broader in mandate, it is a structurally comparable public-sector health data platform serving similar institutional buyers.

Direct peers

• ORU Île-de-France (ORU IDF): Regional emergency observatory covering the Paris region. Performs the same RPU data collection, dashboarding, and care-pathway coordination as ORU NA under the same FEDORU framework, making it the most directly comparable regional peer by mandate and scope.
• GRADeS ESEA Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Regional e-health support group providing the SSO and digital infrastructure ORU NA's Espace Pro platform depends on. Operates an adjacent regional health IT/data mandate with significant operational overlap on emergency and care-pathway tooling.
• FEDORU (Fédération des Observatoires Régionaux des Urgences): National federation whose member regional ORUs share methodology, RPU data standards, and tools with ORU NA. It is the umbrella for all French regional emergency observatories and the most direct institutional peer.
• ORU PACA: Regional emergency observatory for Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Same FEDORU methodology, RPU data collection, and territory-coordination mission as ORU NA, in a different but comparable regional scope.

Others

• ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine: The regional health agency that both funds ORU NA and consumes its outputs. While not a competitor, it is the closest institutional counterpart and the principal customer/ecosystem participant around which ORU NA's mandate is organized.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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