Alaska Unified Rural Outreach for Regional Access
AURORA connects local clinics, tribal health organizations, rural hospitals, and primary care teams to Alaska dermatology hubs, so patients can receive specialty guidance without leaving their community whenever clinically appropriate.
AURORA at a glance
How AURORA works
Care starts at the local clinic, with the team the patient already knows.
The spoke captures standardized photos and the AURORA minimum data set.
A dermatology hub reviews the case by teledermatology.
A diagnosis and plan come back to the local team.
Treatment and monitoring happen close to home, with hub support.
Find your path
Reach specialty dermatology through your local clinic, without a long trip away from home whenever care allows.
How AURORA works →Bring specialty dermatology to your community as a spoke site, with training, tools, and hub support behind every case.
Become a spoke site →Support rural access as clinical infrastructure, with a firewalled, non-promotional model.
See our impact →Why AURORA exists
Psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa, atopic dermatitis, and related conditions are whole-body inflammatory diseases tied to the joints, heart, metabolism, and mental health. They need real diagnosis and management, not just a cream.
Across rural and remote Alaska, the nearest dermatologist can be hundreds of miles and several flights away, so conditions go undiagnosed and undertreated for years.
Where a patient lives should not determine whether a treatable disease is caught early. AURORA brings specialty input to the local team instead of asking every patient to travel.
Many chronic inflammatory skin diseases now have more treatment pathways than they did a decade ago. AURORA helps rural teams recognize when a condition needs specialty input, documentation, monitoring, or referral.
Conditions supported
AURORA Core focuses on systemic immune-mediated diseases that fit the hub-and-spoke model, and it supports general dermatology and urgent triage alongside them.
Phase 0, building the foundation
AURORA is recruiting founding spoke sites and developing the training, photo standards, and workflow that make rural teledermatology work. If you serve a rural community, we would like to talk.