Kodak sells 70 PACS/RIS systems in Europe and US
20 April 2005
During the past twelve months, Kodak has signed contracts with more than
70 European and US healthcare institutions for its RIS/PACS suite and
Enterprise Information Management solutions. Many customers have also
trusted Professional Services from Kodak to design and implement their
network and manage the migration of their data from their legacy PACS.
"Kodak’s powerful RIS/PACS suite is very well received by healthcare
providers of all types, from small imaging centres to large hospital systems
and regional projects," said Ulf Anderson, Business Manager Healthcare
Information Systems, European, African, & Middle Eastern Region, Kodak’s
Health Group." The following European facilities recently purchased a Kodak
RIS/PACS solution:
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The Assistance Publique/Hôpitaux
de Paris Group, France, recently awarded Kodak, as part of a joint venture,
a tender to equip the 40 hospitals in the group with a KODAK DIRECTVIEW
System 5 suite solution. Kodak will install its System 5 to manage modality
storage, viewing and distribution applications within the radiology
departments of the Group. Kodak’s solution will be rolled out to twenty
locations across the hospital group within the next two years.
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Università Cattolica, Policlinico
Gemelli, Italy, recently acquired a KODAK PACS System 5 together with a RIS
that integrates all existing modalities, including the KODAK DIRECTVIEW DR
9000, the KODAK DIRECTVIEW DR 5100 and KODAK DIRECTVIEW CR systems. The
KODAK PACS System 5 provides an ‘On-Line Archiving’ architecture using RAID
technology to provide instant access to images. The system, integrated with
the existing HIS, features a VIParchive platform that will be the starting
point for the consolidation and concentration of all existing clinical data.
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Codira, Germany has selected
Kodak to establish the required systems and infrastructure to launch
e-health services in Germany. Kodak will connect up to sixteen radiology
facilities, located across the Schleswig-Holstein region, to a remote
central archive, powered by KODAK Versatile Intelligent Patient Archive (
VIParchive ) software, with an initial 2Tb storage capacity, based at a
‘Deutsche Telekom’ data centre in Kiel, Germany. Each facility will store
around 10,000 exams per year on the central archive during the initial
phase. Kodak will also deliver web-based image distribution, allowing
radiologists to provide remote diagnostic services to clinicians. This
infrastructure is designed to be expanded in a second stage to more
radiology facilities and to consulting services.
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ASISA, Spain. After having
selected Kodak Digital Capture solutions to digitise the legacy conventional
radiography from their hospitals in Cordoba, Murcia and Moncloa, with a
KODAK DIRECTVIEW DR 9000 and several KODAK DIRECTVIEW CR 950 and CR 850
systems, ASISA, one of the most important Private Healthcare groups in
Spain, has expanded its partnership with Kodak to equip its Clínica
Vistahermosa hospital in Alicante with a KODAK DIRECTVIEW PACS System 5. The
system includes diagnostic workstations, 18 months’ on-line storage and web
distribution of radiology images to clinicians. The System 5 is also fully
integrated and synchronised with the hospital’s proprietary HIS/RIS and
Speech Recognition systems. The KODAK DIRECTVIEW PACS System 5 completes the
digitisation of the hospital’s Diagnostic Imaging Department, which began
with the installation of two KODAK DIRECTVIEW CR systems.
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The Clinique Universitaire UCL
Saint Luc in Brussels, Belgium, a 950 bed university hospital, has selected
Kodak to build their long term, enterprise-wide archive with a KODAK
VIParchive solution. The system, configured with more than 6Tb on EMC RAID
disks and 35Tb on tape, is designed to store the data output from 250,000
procedures per year, including DICOM images and non-DICOM information from
other clinical departments, such as nuclear medicine and cardiology. UCL is
also deploying a KODAK DIRECTVIEW PACS with a web-distribution system across
the hospital for up to 200 simultaneous users.
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Stavanger University Hospital,
Stavanger Hospital Trust, Norway installed one of the first KODAK PACS in
the late ’nineties. Last year, the hospital took the decision to upgrade its
KODAK System 4 to System 5, the latest generation of KODAK PACS. The upgrade
includes the transition of the seven year old archive manager, through the
clustered System 5, to a KODAK VIParchive solution, which has expanded PACS
storage and archiving to cardiology, with digital mammography soon to be
added. The 7Tb database is already under migration to the new VIParchive
system, which will run in a clustered environment and re-use existing
hardware equipment such as the EMC SYMMETRIX storage solution. With the
addition of cardiology and digital mammography studies during 2005 the
hospital will store new data equivalent to more than 7Tb per year.
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Hereford County Hospital,
Hereford, England has extended a long-term association with Kodak with the
decision to upgrade its existing Kodak System 4 PACS to a fully integrated
KODAK System 5 PACS for increased management, storage and distribution of
images. The additional purchase of a KODAK RIS 2010 to interface with
patient demographics now provides a fully synchronized PACS/RIS system
connected to all modalities — CT, MR, Ultrasound and Nuclear Medicine —
alongside the KODAK Computed Radiography Systems introduced in early 2002.
The new system will provide radiologists with workflow improvements through
increased efficiency in reporting for the 110,000 mixed exams per year and
the ability to extend PACS reach beyond the hospital environment with image
distribution via the Web to referring physicians and General Practitioners
within Primary Care Trusts.
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The Kennemer Gasthuis Haarlem,
The Netherlands, a large, multi-location hospital, last year chose the KODAK
RIS/PACS Radiology Suite to help in their move into the digital age. The
three hospital sites are now connected by a 100 Mbits/sec WAN (wide area
network) where the single database of the KODAK PACS System 5 gives the best
performance, allowing each of ten diagnostic workstations and 150
simultaneous web users immediate access to every exam from each site. The
hospital selected the unique capability of the KODAK RIS 2010 to
automatically prepare conferences for clinical departments and to give
optimal integration with the existing 8 Tb HP SAN. The configuration also
includes Speech Recognition, a long-term archive and the enhanced 3D module
for the KODAK System 5 DX Diagnostic Workstation with tissue definition,
bone removal and vessel tracking on top of native MIP/MPR.
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