Orthocrat Announces Successful Implementation

 of TraumaCad at UPMC Mercy

Columbia, MD – May 29, 2009.  Orthocrat, Ltd. announced today that UPMC Mercy, part of the UPMC global health enterprise, has successfully implemented the TraumaCad digital orthopedic templating solution.

TraumaCad allows UPMC Mercy’s orthopedic surgeons to preoperatively plan their surgeries from anywhere, by accessing their patients’ images using UPMC’s enterprise-wide digital imaging (PACS) system.

Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, MBA, UPMC’s Medical Director for Digital Imaging Informatics, explains, “Our orthopedic surgeons at UPMC Mercy can now digitally plan their surgeries at a time that is convenient to them, with complete access to all necessary x-rays and advanced planning tools.  This allows the surgeon to more accurately predict the type and size of prosthetic implants, and is proving to be a clinical advantage.”

“We are proud to have UPMC Mercy as our customer,” says Zeev Glozman, Orthocrat’s CEO.  “In the coming months, we look forward to introducing ever more advanced clinical capabilities, such as our auto-hip templating and our advanced deformity-correction software, to UPMC’s surgeons.”

Dr. Shrestha adds, “The TraumaCad implementation has gone very smoothly, and we look forward to seeing increasing efficiencies for our orthopedic surgeons and benefits for our patients.”  

About Orthocrat

Orthocrat has a simple mission:  To dramatically improve the orthopedic surgeon’s workflow, so that more time can be spent with patients.  TraumaCad, our flagship product, is installed at over 1,000 locations in ten countries, including hospitals, clinics and academic institutions. OrthoFlow, our newest workflow solution, is already proving that a busy surgeon can expect to get rid of an hour of repetitive drudgery each day, and spend that time with patients instead.   

Orthocrat has worldwide offices in Baltimore, Tampa, London and Tel Aviv. Visit us at www.traumacad.com.

Visit Orthocrat at Booth # 813 at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) in Charlotte, North Carolina, from June 4-7, 2009.

 About UPMC

UPMC is an $8 billion integrated global health enterprise headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and one of the leading nonprofit health systems in the United States. As western Pennsylvania’s largest employer, with 50,000 employees, UPMC is transforming the economy of the region into one based on medicine, research and technology. By integrating 20 hospitals, 400 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, long-term care facilities and a major health insurance services division, and in collaboration with its academic partner, the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC has advanced the quality and efficiency of health care and developed internationally renowned programs in transplantation, cancer, neurosurgery, psychiatry, Orthopaedics and sports medicine, among others. UPMC is commercializing its medical and technological expertise by nurturing new companies, developing strategic business relationships with some of the world’s leading multinational corporations and expanding into international markets, including Italy, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Cyprus and Qatar. For more information about UPMC, visit our Web site at www.upmc.com.