Carestream to expand PACS in Germany
- 4 February 2008
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Carestream Health Deutschland has signed an agreement with Dr Hancken Clinics to expand its PACS solution to the practice based at the Elbeklinikum Clinic in Buxtehude.
Carestream will also install a long-term central archive for all four group locations at Cuxhaven, Stade, Buxtehude and Bremervörde.
Dr Hancken Clinics have been using Carestream’s PACS for a number of years. With the new expansion, all locations will be able to centrally access, distribute and archive patient images.
To install the project, Carestream Health is working closely with EWETEL, a regional telecommunications service provider, who is providing the fast data lines required, as well as the central Carestream PACS system within its computer centre.
EWETEL’s involvement is to provide the system with optimal security, something which Carestream claims will make loss of data virtually impossible.
Carestream says that with centralised data, the requirement for separate, expensive data storage and back-up is minimised as patient images are always available to the referring physician irregardless of location.
Duplicate X-rays are also minimized which is a major step towards radiation hygiene, as required under German X-ray regulations.
Carestream’s regional general manager for healthcare information solutions in EMEA, said: “Kodak Carestream IT solutions make intelligent data management possible across several locations where there is distributed infrastructure.”
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