Dendrite Clinical Systems and the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in the UK are pleased to announce the SCTS Conference News 2022 newspaper is now available to view/download. The newspaper reports a multitude of presentations from the meeting including the latest and the best information on new technologies and techniques in cardio-thoracic surgery.
Researchers led by the Clinical Research Unit at the Special Unit for Biomedical Research and Education (SUBRE), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Greece, have initiated a randomised control trial (RCT) that will compare minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation (MiECC) with conventional cardiopulmonary bypass (cCPB).
Dendrite Clinical Systems, working in close cooperation with the SCTS and several cardiac centres, has developed a series of ‘Dashboards’ that allow users to access to their unit’s surgical outcomes and compare them to national results in real-time. By uploading their data to the central Dendrite National Cardiac Surgical Registry, individual units or centres can instantly benchmark their results via an on-line database for internal consumption to assist units with their own clinical governance and for auditing purposes.
Dendrite Clinical Systems is delighted to announce the first ever report from New Zealand’s Te Rēhita Mate Ūtaetae - Breast Cancer Foundation National Register. The ground-breaking report, titled, “30,000 voices: Informing a better future for breast cancer in New Zealand,” covers 30,000 patients diagnosed from 2003 to 2019.
The European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) has signed an agreement to develop a series of web-based registries on organ 
History
Dendrite Clinical Systems was established in 1993, by co-directors Dr Peter Walton, Keith Price and Neal McCann, and over the last 26 years the company has become one of the leading suppliers of clinical software to hospitals and institutions in the world. Since its inception, the company has maintained a belief that clinical data collection and analysis is crucial in achieving effective clinical audit and ultimately, improving patient outcomes.
Starting from an office in central London, Dendrite has evolved from a specialist supplier of clinical databases and analysis software, to providing consultancy and publishing services for the international healthcare sector. The company now has two offices in the UK, agents across four continents and has expanded its global user base across hundreds of hospitals, with over 170 national and international registries in more than 40 countries.
Dendrite has continued to develop innovative clinical software solutions, which have been utilised in many different clinical scenarios, fulfilling the company's ethos of providing the tools for effective clinical governance.
