Surgical IT

Large Oshawa clinic selects Orthocrat for surgical planning

OSHAWA, Ont. – The Oshawa Clinic, Canada’s largest private physician practice, has selected Orthocrat, a leading digital orthopedic surgical planning solution, to provide advanced surgical planning and templating software for its orthopedic surgeons.

The three-clinic system, located just east of Toronto, recently adopted Orthocrat’s TraumaCad orthopedic surgical planning software as a fully integrated element of its new IntelePACS picture archiving and communication system. The new PACS system will serve more than 90 physicians in the flagship Oshawa Clinic, as well as the group’s Courtice Health Centre and Taunton Health Centre.

By incorporating TraumaCad, the new PACS gives orthopedists ‘anywhere access’ to powerful surgical planning tools.

“Our PACS implementation team is very happy with our choice of TraumaCad. We were very pleased with the readiness of TraumaCad as our PACS deployment team had pre-loaded all the orthopedic templates currently used by our surgeons,” says Deric Smith, PACS Administrator for Oshawa Clinic. “The implementation of TraumaCad has propelled the Oshawa Clinic into the digital world of surgical planning. The user friendliness of the software has made it simple in training our orthopedic surgeons onsite.”

TraumaCad’s integration with Intelerad’s state-of-the-art IntelePACS gives orthopedic surgeons user-friendly access to advanced display protocols and flexible review functionalities across the enterprise. TraumaCad’s orthopedic planning tools are available anywhere on the PACS network.

Templated images are seamlessly updated so surgical plans are available on demand throughout the enterprise. “Orthocrat is proud to have our TraumaCad software selected by Canada’s largest medical group practice,” said Zeev Glozman, Orthocrat’s founder and CEO. “Oshawa’s choice of TraumaCad illustrates Orthocrat’s rapid growth in international markets, as orthopedists worldwide recognize the benefits of our robust surgical planning solution.”

TraumaCad brings Oshawa a host of advantages over competing applications, the company said. Most importantly, TraumaCad is a true thin-client solution, whose Web-based architecture enables downloads from a central server and delivers a consistent, PACS-integrated working environment, regardless of the user’s location.

About Orthocrat
Established in 2003, Orthocrat Ltd. focuses on creating professional software tools for orthopedic surgeons. TraumaCad medical imaging software is powerful, easy-to-use and compliments the surgeon’s workflow. Digital imaging tools enable surgeons to perform pre-operative planning with great accuracy, ease and flexibility. Orthocrat products are equally suited for small- to mediumsized practices as well for large academic institutions.

About Intelerad
With over 400 IntelePACS installations, Intelerad Medical Systems Inc. is a leading PACS supplier. Fifteen thousand clinicians across nine time zones use IntelePACS every day. InteleViewer Workstation is an extension of Intelerad’s expertise in providing medical imaging solutions. For more information about IntelePACS, or to download InteleViewer Workstation with a free 30-day evaluation license, visit www.intelerad.com.

About the Oshawa Clinic
For 76 years, the Oshawa Clinic has been providing quality health services to families in the Durham Region and over this period, the group has grown into the largest medical group practice in Canada.