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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Hubs create technology for Digital Britain
Research Councils UK has unveiled a five year, £36m programme to develop new digital technologies. Three research hubs in Nottingham, Newcastle and Aberdeen will work on projects to open up new markets, improve the lives of elderly and socially excluded people and support rural communities. Science and innovation minister Lord Drayson said the new programme […]
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King’s College to install 50 self-service kiosks
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is to become the first in Europe to install patient self-service kiosks supplied by NCR. The touch-screen kiosks are designed to simplify checking-in and out procedures for patients. A total of 50 MediKiosks will initially be deployed this autumn in the London hospital’s dermatology, haematology, orthopedics, urology and general […]
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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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Sweden’s Ortivus signs antivirus deal
Swedish health IT specialist Ortivus has signed an agreement with Swedish IT security provider SE46 AB.
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Bulgarian Ministry of Health chooses Agfa PACS
The Bulgarian Ministry of Health has chosen Agfa HealthCare to integrate diagnostic imaging at four leading hospitals. Agfa will implement its sixth generation IMPAX Picture Archiving and Communications System at four Bulgarian hospitals. Agfa will also provide the hospitals with two CR 85-X, and four CR 35-X, multi-application digitizers. The systems will be installed at […]
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Bahía wins Cantabrian medical imaging deal
Spanish software developer Bahía Software has been awarded a contract to develop and consolidate a plan for scanning medical images at hospital centres within the Cantabrian Health Service. The firm says the implementation of the project over the next 16-months will allow all the results of medical tests, such as x-rays for example, to be […]
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Teenage clicks
At last year’s BT e-Health Insider awards, NHS Choices won the best use of ICT in patient and citizen involvement category, sponsored by Fujitsu, for a new media sexual health initiative in the Humber region.
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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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