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Cedara Introduces OrthoWorks Care Manager, a Powerful Knowledge
Management Solution that Tracks Vital Patient Information
TORONTO, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cedara Software Corp.
(NASDAQ:CDSW/TSX:CDE), recently named Fastest Growing Healthcare Company for
2004 by America's foremost market research firm Frost and Sullivan, today
unveiled Cedara OrthoWorks Care Manager(TM), an innovative new orthopaedic
knowledge management system.
OrthoWorks Care Manager uses a unique, patent-pending method of collecting and
organizing information about past patient outcomes to equip orthopaedic
surgeons, hospital administrators, insurance companies and implant
manufacturers to make better decisions about surgical therapy, patient care,
and healthcare budgets.
Up to now, orthopaedic surgeons and other support services have been forced to
keep manual records about orthopaedic surgeries, and separate records for
follow-up care and recovery. These conventional techniques make it almost
impossible to discover important cause and effect trends and statistics. With
OrthoWorks Care Manager, users now have vital outcomes statistics readily
available at their fingertips.
"The linking of clinical study management with the assessment and measurement
system is a really powerful combination," said Dr. Christian Mazel, head of
Orthopaedic Surgery at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris in Paris, France.
"There simply is no other orthopaedic product on the market today that provides
this level of workflow automation."
OrthoWorks Care Manager will be invaluable to many working in the field of
orthopaedics:
- orthopaedists who want an audit trail of their decision-making process
to assist with post-therapy treatment planning
- clinical groups and clinicians who want to share clinical study data,
and speed up the way they conduct multi-center studies
- implant manufacturers who want to track the performance of their
implants in order to achieve a faster time-to-market
- insurance companies that want a better way to record treatment steps
and outcomes when evaluating insurance claims
- HIS/RIS providers looking to support their orthopaedic clients with
special tools to capture workflow data in orthopaedics
OrthoWorks Care Manager provides a central database from which to extract
results such as implant usage, pain thresholds, recovery rates, complications,
mobility, mortality, and other important clinical outcome statistics. Users are
able to set up mandatory input fields, such as range of motion and pain
intensity, allowing data to be collected in a consistent manner from multiple
healthcare organizations. Orthopaedic measurement and clinical scoring tools
are already integrated into the software, allowing treatment information to
flow automatically into the database.
"Healthcare organizations and manufacturers have struggled with tracking and
controlling surgical procedures and implants for years," stated Jacques Cornet,
Cedara VP of Marketing and Operations. "With OrthoWorks Care Manager, Cedara
has provided a truly innovative product that allows orthopaedic surgeons to
quickly find exactly what they are looking for in a matter of minutes."
In addition to powerful automation tools that allow users to search complex
study data with efficiency and ease, clinicians can use OrthoWorks Care
Manager's advanced data management system to query the database rapidly for
results on the quality of treatment interventions and study trends. A wide
variety of text and graphical software tools are available to log study scores
and treatment information.
Cedara OrthoWorks Care Manager(TM) is part of Cedara's powerful family of
OrthoWorks planning tools for orthopaedics. For more information about Cedara's
complete range of medical imaging products, visit the Cedara website at
http://www.cedara.com/. Or contact:
Jacques Cornet, Vice President of Marketing & Operations
(905) 672-2100 ext. 2564
Email:
For investor-related inquiries, contact:
Brian Pedlar, Chief Financial Officer
(905) 672-2100 ext. 2015
Email:
About Cedara Software:
Cedara Software Corp. is a leading independent provider of medical imaging
technologies. Cedara software is deployed in hospitals and clinics worldwide
and is licensed by many of the world's leading medical device and healthcare
information technology companies. Approximately 28,000 medical imaging systems
and 6,400 Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) workstations have
been licensed to date. Cedara recently acquired eMed Technologies Corporation,
widely known as a provider of innovative PACS and teleradiology solutions that
have been installed in over 2,000 hospitals and imaging centers. Cedara is
quite unique in that it has technologies and expertise that span all the major
digital imaging modalities including computed tomography (CT), magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI), digital X-ray, mammography, ultrasound,
echo-cardiology, angiography, nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography
(PET) and fluoroscopy. Furthermore, the Company's medical imaging offerings are
used in all aspects of clinical workflow including the capture of a patient's
digital image; the archiving, communication and manipulation of digital images;
sophisticated clinical applications to analyze digital images; and even the use
of imaging in minimally-invasive surgery.
Certain statements contained in this news release are forward-looking within
the meaning of securities laws and are based on current expectations that are
subject to a number of assumptions, uncertainties and risks, and there are
actual results may differ materially from what is currently expected. These
assumptions, uncertainties and risks include, but are not limited to: the
management of the growth of the Company, dependence on key personnel of the
Company, competitive pressures (including price competition), changes in market
activity, risks associated with international operations, the development of
new products and services, the enhancement of existing products and services,
the introduction of competing products having technological and/or other
advantages, the dependence on key customers, regulatory changes to the health
care industry, seasonality, economic and political conditions and adequate
protection of the proprietary interests of the Company. Further information
about these risks and uncertainties can be found in the continuous disclosure
documents filed from time to time by Cedara with the securities regulatory
authorities, which documents are available at http://www.sedar.com/.
All trademarks appearing in this release are the property of Cedara Software
Corp.
DATASOURCE: Cedara Software Corp.
CONTACT: Jacques Cornet, Vice President of Marketing & Operations,
Cedara Software Corp., (905) 672-2100 ext. 2564, ;
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