HiQ engaged by world leader Mentice AB

HiQ engaged by world leader Mentice AB

- simulation applications of the future for doctors are being developed in
Gothenburg
Gothenburg-based medical technology company Mentice is the world leader in
simulation applications within medicine and surgical training. HiQ was
commissioned to assist Mentice with everything from project management and
method development within SCRUM to interactive training.


For more than a decade HiQ has worked on flight simulators for pilots and combat
aircraft. Today, doctors also use simulators to train in surgical techniques.

“We are developing the surgical simulators of the future and we currently have
more than 600 installations around the world. In the main, the users of our
simulation applications are surgeons requiring surgical training - either
surgeons completing their initial training or surgeons expanding their skills or
wanting to learn new methods. HiQ has been very helpful in contributing project
management expertise as well as working on refining our project portfolio. I am
looking forward to our continued good partnership,” says Christina von Dorrien,
Chief Operating Officer at Mentice AB.

A medical simulator is cheap and effective to use when doctors need to learn
advanced vascular surgery, for example. 

“The value of simulator training has long been known within aviation - an area
that HiQ has engaged with right from the start. There are also substantial
training requirements in the care sector. Using simulation methods for areas
such as vascular surgery is both ethical and economically efficient. Our work
for Mentice to date has been very interesting and we hope to be able to combine
our previous experience within simulation with project management skills in the
future,” says Simona Bamerlind, key account manager of HiQ.

Among other things, HiQ has assisted Mentice with setting up a project office,
refining the project portfolio, implementing SCRUM as a project framework and
with the production of interactive training for the Mentice VIST simulator,
including certification elements.

About Mentice:
Mentice is a leading supplier of medical simulation applications. The company
has its head office in Gothenburg, an office in Switzerland and sales offices in
the US, Germany, the UK, Australia, Japan and China. Its customers include most
of the leading medical technology companies such as Guidant and Cordis (Johnson& Johnson), as well as hospitals and training centres throughout the world, such
as Karolinska University Hospital and Stanford University. The company has 600
installations worldwide and more than 100 validation studies. Read more at:
www.mentice.com

For further information, please contact:
Jerker Lindsten, VD HiQ Göteborg, tel.: +46 31 743 91 00
Annika Billberg, Head of Corporate Communications HiQ International, 
tel.: +46 (0)8-588 90 000, +46 (0)704-200 103

HiQ is an IT and management consultancy company focusing on high-tech solutions
in the fields of communications, software development and simulation technology.
The company is a leading player in these fields and the Nordic region is its
domestic market. HiQ employs more than 1,000 people at offices in the Nordic
region and Eastern Europe. HiQ is listed on the Nasdaq OMX Nordic Exchange's
MidCap list. For more information, please visit www.hiq.se