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Clinical partners
RAYSEARCH CLINICAL ADVISORY BOARD
2020 was a year of great accomplishments and unprecedented challenges as we worked to find solutions to stay connected with our board members in the midst of a pandemic.
The first online meeting in RaySearch Clinical Advisory Board history was held in our in-house studio at Stockholm headquarters in October 2020. We adapted smoothly to the virtual environment, producing an extremely successful and enjoyable event with participation from all the partner clinics.
Some of our past year’s highlights include the addition of a new member: MedAustron, who will power all the steps in their patient workflow using RaySearch software: RayCare®, RayStation® and the newest addition to our product family RayCommand® Additionally, Swiss Medical Network, who joined the board in 2019, went live with RayCare Flow.
Due to the strong development progress and enhanced maturity level of RayCare, we are now seeing a shift in the feedback coming from our advisory board members. The input we are receiving regarding innovation ideas is increasingly geared toward more advanced features and user experience, plus the notion of what all our software products can accomplish collectively. With that in mind, there is a strong focus on unifying our products and creating a superior user experience throughout the complete suite of products.
An ongoing mutual trust and collective combination of knowledge, professional expertise and valuable experience is the common thread that nurtures our working partnerships, and we are both humbled and proud to be engaged in the fight against cancer in collaboration with all our valued board members.
CLINICAL PARTNERS
Radiotherapie Medische Oncologie Hematologie
HEIDELBERG AND MARBURG ION BEAM THERAPY CENTERS (GERMANY) These two prestigious sites in Germany are operational with proton and carbon ion therapy. Heidelberg University Hospital became a RayCare partner in 2018. RayStation was selected jointly by clinicians and researchers at HIT, MIT, Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Center. RayStation is the first commercial treatment planning system in the world to support helium ion therapy, and Heidelberg Hospital's Ion Beam Therapy Center is the first in Europe with helium, supported by RayStation. Heidelberg has used RayCare clinically since 2019 to drive and support their RayStation planning workflows.
IRIDIUM CANCER NETWORK (BELGIUM) ICN represents the close collaboration between all seven hospitals in Antwerp, Belgium, and shares a radiation therapy department. ICN became a RaySearch partner in 2015 and was the first to use RayCare clinically, just two months after the clinical release of the system.
SWISS MEDICAL NETWORK (SWITZERLAND) Swiss Medical Network is one of Switzerland's two leading private clinic groups. Its clinics provide first-class hospital treatment, care and assistance for all three of the country's main language regions. Swiss Medical Network became a clinical partner of RaySearch in 2019 and has been using RayCare clinically since September 2020.
PROVISION HEALTHCARE (USA) Provision became a RayCare partner in 2017. In 2014, the Provision CARES Proton Therapy Center, Knoxville, became the first center in the world to use RayStation for clinical proton treatments. Provision are using only RaySearch products to manage all patient treatments including treatment session management with RayTreat since 2018, with 48 users, and 18550 fractions delivered.
UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK (CANADA) UHN and RaySearch have enjoyed a successful and longstanding relationship via the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto. In July 2018, we joined forces to further develop RayCare. Princess Margaret is one of the largest comprehensive cancer treatment facilities in the world. The center recently made a major expansion of its RayStation platform and is on the way to being one of the biggest RayStation installations in the world.
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN (NETHERLANDS) UMCG was the first in the country to provide proton radiation therapy in addition to advanced photon irradiation techniques. The clinic is equipped with IBA’s ProteusPLUS two-gantry room configuration, pencil-beam scanning, and cone-beam CT capabilities. UMCG has been instrumental in the development of oncology information system RayCare since 2015. UMCG has been instrumental in the development of oncology information system RayCare, and have been using RayCare clinically since 2019.
MEDAUSTRON (AUSTRIA) MedAustron is a cutting-edge center for ion therapy and research, specialized in advanced cancer treatment using protons and carbon ions. The center is located in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, around 50 km south of Vienna. MedAustron has been using RayStation for treatment planning since 2016 and have migrated to an “all-RaySearch” software installation – with RayCare OIS and RayCommand TCS to provide the link between RayCare and RayStation.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER (USA) MD Anderson first began using RayStation in 2013 with conventional linear accelerators, later adding the TomoTherapy System and working closely with RaySearch and Accuray. The clinic now uses RayStation for all radiation treatment planning. RaySearch began collaboration in 2017 with the center to enable clinical implementation of RayCare in a complex and large-scale environment. By 2018, a strategic alliance was formed to enhance cancer radiation therapy through the utilization of adaptive radiation therapy (ART) and increase efficiency and automation of planning workflows.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON (USA) UWM became a RayCare partner in 2017. RayCare will support the department’s strong multidisciplinary approach to cancer care and its focus on cutting-edge techniques. The University, which has long tradition of radiation therapy treatment, has also implemented RayStation as its treatment planning system.
RayStation has allowed us to consolidate all of the external radiotherapy treatment planning under one roof. RayCare is well integrated with RayStation and has allowed us to have real-time patient tracking at different treatment planning stages, thus really streamlining our workflows.
Eduard Gerškevitš, PhD
Head Of Medical Physics Service, Radiotherapy Centre , North Estonia Medical Centre, Estonia
Eduard is a medical physicist with 25 years of clinical experience. He has vast experience in commissioning and audits of radiotherapy equipment in different countries. He is a board member of MPWB.
