Cedara Software Appoints New Director
20 Oktober 2004 - 4:43PM
PR Newswire (US)
Cedara Software Appoints New Director TORONTO, Oct. 20
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cedara Software Corp. (TSX:CDE/
NASDAQ:CDSW) a leading independent developer of medical software
technologies for the global healthcare market, has announced the
election of Dr. Myrna Francis to its Board of Directors at the
Company's Annual General Meeting held in Toronto on October 18,
2004. Dr. Francis, who heads her own consulting practice
specializing in strategic business development and innovation in
healthcare and healthcare- related information technology, brings
valuable experience in these areas and in regulatory aspects of
healthcare to the Board. Her career includes seven years in senior
roles in the Government of Ontario, several of which were in the
Ministry of Health. She served as a partner in CLC Healthcare,
consulting to U.S. and Canadian corporate clients on I.T. and
related strategies in healthcare. Following this, Dr. Francis
joined IBM Canada where she became General Manager of the Health
and Life Sciences Industry Group. Her most recent role was as
Interim President, Canada Health Infoway. "Myrna Francis brings
highly relevant experience to Cedara's Board of Directors in
several key areas and we look forward to the benefit of her
involvement," said Peter Cooper, Cedara Chairman. Coinciding with
the appointment of Dr. Francis was the retirement from the Board of
Stephen Pincus, a Partner in Goodmans LLP. Mr. Pincus joined the
Cedara Board in late 2002 and decided for reasons associated with
his professional commitments not to stand for re-election. "His
wise counsel through a period of difficult turnaround decisions is
appreciated by the Board and Management and we thank Stephen for
his always thoughtful opinions," said Mr. Cooper. About Cedara
Software: Cedara Software Corp. is a leading independent provider
of medical technologies for many of the world's leading medical
device and healthcare information technology companies. Cedara
software is deployed in hospitals and clinics worldwide -
approximately 28,000 medical imaging systems and 6,400 Picture
Archiving and Communications System (PACS) workstations have been
licensed to date. Cedara is enabling the future of the healthcare
industry with new innovative approaches to workflow, data and image
management, integration, the web, software components and
professional services. The Company's medical imaging solutions are
used in all aspects of clinical workflow including the capture of
patient digital images; the sharing and archiving of images;
sophisticated tools to analyze and manipulate images; and even the
use of imaging in surgery. Cedara is unique in that it has
expertise and technologies that span all the major digital imaging
modalities including angiography, computed tomography (CT),
echo-cardiology, digital X-ray, fluoroscopy, mammography, magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear medicine, positron emission
tomography (PET) and ultrasound. 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: For more information
about Cedara, visit the Cedara website at http://www.cedara.com/.
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