Wales to pilot PACS integration
Informing Healthcare is planning a pilot for image sharing between picture archiving and communications systems across the country. The PACS integration project will involve finding a solution for sharing images between the six PACS systems in use in Wales from Fuji, Agfa, Insignia (Steria), Carestream and GE and Ferrania. A spokesperson for Welsh IT agency told E-Health […]
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Carestream wins Belgium PACS contracts
Carestream Health has won three contracts for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) for mammography images in the French-speaking region of Belgium. The three PACS deals cover: a regional programme for mammography screening; mobile mammography screening; and screening in a private radiology clinic. The three deals will all support the regional Communauté Française mammography screening […]
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FDA clears Carestream Health product
The US Food and Drug Administration has given marketing clearance to the DRX-1 System from Carestream Health. The company claims the DRX-1 is the industry’s first wireless digital radiography detector, and that now it has FDA clearance it will start taking orders and shipping within weeks. The system incorporates a console and a wireless cassette-sized […]
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Carestream wins order in Scotland
Kodak Directview DR7500 Carestream Health has announced it has won orders to supply eleven Kodak Directview digital radiography systems in Scotland. The systems will be supplied to Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Fife Health Boards and come as part of the overall modernisation of Glasgow’s acute hospitals. Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board is in […]
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Carestream Health innnovations in Vienna
Carestream superPACS Carestream Health has unveiled a new architecture at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna. The architecture, which will be available to order in April, will enable trusts to bring together systems from multiple vendors and multiple sites. This should enable them to streamline workflows by allowing patient information and images to be […]
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Carestream gets KBV e-health card certification
Carestream Health has become one of the first healthcare IT companies to receive the KBV certificate, eGK-Release-0, as part of the initial rollout of the electronic health smartcard in Germany. The Federal National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians awarded the certificate for the Care Radiology Information System (RIS) software. The certification provides confirmation that […]
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Carestream Health hits 2000 CR installs
Carestream Health has announced it has reached a milestone in CR installations, having installed its two thousandth high resolution CR system at the Rechts der Isar Clinic in Munich, Germany. The Munich University Rechts der Isar Clinic, with its specialised team of physicians dedicated to mammography, installed a new multi-plate Kodak Directview CR 975 System […]
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Carestream chosen for Israel-wide RIS-PACS
Carestream Health has been awarded a €19.4m ($25m) country-wide contract for a RIS-PACS project across Israel’s Clalit Health Services. The Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), and Radiology Information System (RIS) and central archiving solution will be deployed across all Clalit’s hospitals and imaging centers in Israel. Clalit Health Services is a health management organisation […]
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Carestream supports Ebay for radiologists
Carestream Health is to provide technical infrastructure to the European Union-funded project to create an Ebay-style online market for radiology services.
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Nij Smellinghe hospital to install Carestream archiving
Nij Smellinghe Hospital in Drachten, The Netherlands, has chosen Carestream Health to provide it with a hosted information management system to enable it to remotely archive patient diagnostic imaging data.
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