Cedara Introduces OrthoWorks Care Manager, a Powerful Knowledge Management Solution that Tracks Vital Patient Information
24 Novembre 2004 - 4:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
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.,
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