Carestream wins Dublin’s Mater Hospital

Dublin’s Mater Private Hospital has signed a multi-year contract with Carestream Health for the provision of a comprehensive digital radiology solution.

Installation will commence mid 2010 and proceed in phases with completion scheduled for the end of the year.

The Mater Hospital’s Radiology Department offers a range of modalities including X-Ray, Digital Mammography, CT, MRI, PET/CT, Nuclear Medicine, Fluoroscopy and Vascular Imaging, undertaking approximately 70,000 studies annually.

New Carestream imaging equipment will be integrated with the latest version of the Carestream RIS & PACS that allows healthcare providers to collaborate seamlessly across multiple sites, platforms and clinical specialities, with just one desktop optimising productivity for the entire radiology workflow.

A storage area network and virtualised server environment will host and provide storage for all the Mater Hospital’s IT applications, including the new Carestream RIS & PACS.

To enable digital capture the contract includes the installation of the innovative Carestream DRX Retrofit System that allows healthcare providers to convert conventional X-ray rooms to DR and achieve valuable gains in workflow.

A Directview Elite CR System with mammography features will also enable mammography exams to be performed using the same platform as general radiography and long length imaging, with the result of improved workflow and productivity.

“The reason we chose Carestream Health was that the integration, usability, advanced 3D and image processing facilities, especially for PET/CT, will support our wide range of disciplines,” said Paddy Gilligan, principal physicist at the Mater Private Hospital.

He added: “The RIS was very intuitive and matched our workflows and overall the product best suited the detailed requirements laid out in our request for procurement.”