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, ; To request a free copy of this organization's annual report, please go to http://www.newswire.ca/ and click on reports@cnw.

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