TORONTO, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company and a leading independent developer of medical software technologies for the global healthcare market, today announced plans to showcase innovative tools for Healthcare IT Providers to help provide tight integration between image data and multiple clinical information sources on a single desktop, throughout a single enterprise, or from disparate sources across the globe at the 2006 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference.
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A major challenge for healthcare professionals is the need to access comprehensive patient information on a single workstation from isolated information systems. This includes medical images from PACS installations, data from other clinical areas such as cardiology and lab results, as well as enterprise information systems (HIS), which are often needed by medical practitioners to fully support diagnostic decision-making for a patient. Cedara’s portfolio of software tools are designed to help solve this challenge at multiple levels throughout the healthcare enterprise by displaying comprehensive patient data on any desktop; enabling integration of any information source in a medical facility; and help include diagnostic images and information into enterprise EMR solutions through multi site information access.
Part of this innovative new approach to workflow includes a new structure for managing advanced visualization. A common challenge experienced by practitioners working in clinical environments comes from time wasted moving between different applications (and workstations) to perform routine image analysis of different diagnostic data. Cedara’s new Clinical Control Center (C4), provides a means to tightly integrate clinical functionality into a single workstation. Through the use of configurable protocols, healthcare professionals can use C4 to automatically launch independent viewing applications from a single patient worklist. For OEM companies, this capability allows seamless integration of third party clinical plug-ins. While C4 provides functional integration for clinical plug-ins from any vendor, it will be demonstrated at HIMSS with a host of advanced visualization solutions from Cedara, including Cedara PET/CT(TM), Cedara IllumiView(TM), Cedara OrthoWorks(TM), Cedara I-Response(TM), Cedara PrimeLung(TM) and Cedara CalScore(TM).
Building on a wealth of experience in medical imaging, Cedara will also demonstrate a variety of tools designed to help organizations implement standards established by HIPAA, IHE, DICOM and HL7. Cedara’s innovative connectivity tools include an innovative image application development platform, Cedara OpenEyes(TM); C4(TM) Clinical Desktop; MergePort(TM), a DICOM and HL7 workflow broker; Cedara’s medical workflow engine; Cedara I-Reach(TM), a web enabled diagnostic workstation; and Cedara aXigate(TM), a clinical information system. These tools are uniquely designed to establish dynamic connections to any data source throughout the healthcare enterprise, either individually or in combination. Using leading edge architecture and built with XML, Java and AJAX interfaces, Cedara’s technology allows Healthcare IT professionals to leverage existing information systems through a middleware approach to information management.
“Cedara’s toolkit approach to integrating imaging data and clinical information significantly expands the value and availability of patient information,” said Brian Pedlar, President of Cedara Software. “Workflow, integration and information exchange represent an important piece of the solution for EMR, System Integrators and Process Management companies. Any Healthcare IT provider that wants to broaden imaging revenue opportunities within their customer base or is faced with the challenge of providing tight integration between image data and multiple clinical information sources on a single desktop will find these toolkits of value.”
Cedara Software, a leading independent developer of medical software technologies for the OEM marketplace, can be found at booth #7601 during HIMSS ’06 at the San Diego Convention Center.
Cedara Software is a Merge Healthcare company focused on the development of custom engineered software applications and development tools for the medical imaging OEM and International markets. 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. Cedara technologies and expertise 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. Cedara medical imaging offerings are used in all aspects of clinical imaging 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 the use of imaging in minimally-invasive surgery. For additional information, visit our website at http://www.cedara.com.
Merge Healthcare is a market leader in the development and delivery of medical imaging and information management software and services. With over twenty years of leadership in the medical imaging and healthcare information technology markets, Merge Healthcare provides innovative solutions for both OEM and the end-user healthcare markets. We custom engineer clinical and imaging applications and development tools that are on the forefront of medicine and its use of medical imaging for OEM and international customers. We develop innovative medical imaging software solutions that support end-to- end business and clinical workflow for radiology department and specialty practices, imaging centers and hospitals. Our innovative software solutions use leading-edge imaging software technologies that accelerate market delivery for our OEM customers, while our end-user solutions improve our customers’ productivity and enhance the quality of patient care they provide. For additional information, visit our website at http://www.merge.com.
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CONTACT: Jacques Cornet, VP of Business Development & Strategic Marketingof Cedara Software Corp., +1-905-672-2100 x 2564,jacques.cornet@cedara.com; or Media: Beth Frost-Johnson, Sr. VP ofMarketing of Merge Healthcare, +1-414-977-4254, bethfj@merge.com
