SURGEONS USE ORTHOPAEDIC KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.Cedara Software Corp., Toronto, (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CDSW/TSX:CDE (1) (Computer Desktop Encyclopedia) What you are reading at this very moment. See About this product. (2) (Common Desktop Environment) A user interface for desktop computing from The Open Group. ), recently named Fastest Growing Healthcare Company for 2004 by America's foremost market research firm Frost and Sullivan, has 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 support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other 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 Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. in a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
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. About Cedara Software Cedara Software Corp. is an 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 (Picture ArChiving System) A storage and management system for high-resolution images. Typically pertaining to the medical field, images such as X-rays, MRIs and CAT scans require a greater amount of storage than other industries. ) 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 Computed tomography (CT scan) X rays are aimed at slices of the body (by rotating equipment) and results are assembled with a computer to give a three-dimensional picture of a structure. (CT), magnetic resonance imaging magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), noninvasive diagnostic technique that uses nuclear magnetic resonance to produce cross-sectional images of organs and other internal body structures. (MRI 1. (application) MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2. MRI - Measurement Requirements and Interface. ), digital X-ray, mammography mammography, diagnostic procedure that uses low-dose X rays to detect abnormalities in the breasts. The early diagnosis of breast cancer made possible by the routine use of mammography for screening women increases a woman's treatment alternatives and improves her , ultrasound, echo-cardiology, angiography angiography or arteriography X-ray examination of arteries and veins with a contrast medium to differentiate them from surrounding organs. The contrast medium is introduced through a catheter to show the blood vessels and the structures they supply, including , nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography positron emission tomography: see PET scan. positron emission tomography (PET) Imaging technique used in diagnosis and biomedical research. (PET) and fluoroscopy fluoroscopy /flu·o·ros·co·py/ (fldbobr-ros´kah-pe) examination by means of the fluoroscope. fluo·ros·co·py n. Examination by means of a fluoroscope. Also called radioscopy. . 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. For more information, call 905/672-2100 ext. 2564 or visit http://www.cedara.com. |
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