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Transatlantic Collaboration featured live case interactions between San
Raffaele Hospital in Milan and Northeast Georgia Medical Center in
Gainesville Stereotaxis to Introduce Major New Odyssey Product Offerings at Heart
Rhythm 2008
ST. LOUIS, May 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stereotaxis, Inc. (Nasdaq: STXS) announced today the first ever bi-directional live case transmission and training course recently conducted via the Stereotaxis Odyssey(TM) Network. The Odyssey Network connected electrophysiologists at San Raffaele University Hospital in Milan, Italy with their colleagues at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, Georgia. Using the Odyssey Network, clinicians in Milan and Gainesville transmitted consecutive live cases performed on their respective Stereotaxis Niobe(R) Magnetic Navigation Systems, enabling the viewing of the cases at both locations in real-time.
Prof. Carlo Pappone, M.D., Ph.D., FACC, Director of the Department of Arrhythmology at San Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy, commented, "I believe that Odyssey represents a breakthrough in EP lab information management, and this recent procedure collaboration with our colleagues at Northeast Georgia Medical Center highlights the capability of the Odyssey network to enable live case transmission, remote procedure sharing, and even remote training."
"The capabilities of the Odyssey platform have exceeded my expectations," said Karthik Ramaswamy, M.D., FACC, Director of Electrophysiology Lab, Northeast Georgia Medical Center. "Network events such as these can greatly enhance progress in our specialty by allowing physicians to share information in an unprecedented way."
"Our Odyssey Network is the culmination of our drive to fully integrate
all of the systems in a typical EP lab around our information management
platform, and to connect lab-to-lab within, and between hospitals," s
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