Kodak and NDMA collaborate to support mammography screening in Europe
4 December 2006 Geneva & Berwyn, Pa., USA Eastman Kodak Company’s
Health Group and National Digital Medical Archive, Inc. (NDMA) are
collaborating on product-integration initiatives that support the European
mammography market’s transition from analogue to digital imaging and
information technology. Kodak and NDMA will combine each other’s products
and systems to create a family of solutions to better manage, archive and
process medical images and information related to mammography screening. The
products involved include:
- KODAK CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions (IMS). These
solutions, which are driven by the KODAK VIParchive software platform,
combine software, hardware and professional services to enable the
consolidation, control, continuity and access to all fixed archived
content within a healthcare facility or among multiple healthcare
facilities within a geographic region. With IMS, the right medical
images and information are available to medical practitioners in the
right place and at the right time.
- Data and image management tools that NDMA will introduce. These
comprise analytical tools required for quality assurance and compliance,
as well as visualization tools dedicated to streamlining the
often-complicated workflow processes involved with mammography.
“The solutions that evolve from integrating Kodak and NDMA products
will enable healthcare facilities to collect, retrieve, store and
distribute digital images and information on demand, thus helping
enhance workflow efficiencies, increase revenue and improve patient
care,” said Ian Marron, Director of eHealth, for Kodak’s Health Group in
Europe, Africa & Middle East. The collaboration will also introduce a
Citizens Health Portal called myNDMA. This will provide patients with
personal health record management tools to securely upload and store their
digital medical images and electronic health records into a private website.
The program allows patients to identify a service bureau to digitize
mammography films; store prior mammograms from previous healthcare
providers; locate digital imaging facilities; and link to healthcare
provider records stored in myNDMA. “The Citizens Health Portal enables
women, who are undergoing screening mammography exams, to link to myNDMA and
see that their studies are safely secured and manage the corresponding
medical records in the personal file folders. More importantly, myNDMA ties
a physician and patient together for the patient’s entire life, including
self-populated family history and self-breast examination logs,” said Derek
Danois, President, NDMA. “Building upon our successful track record
worldwide, we are pleased to team with Kodak and support their commitment to
mammography.” “Our CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions coupled
with NDMA’s solution-layer architecture, post-processing analytics and
consumer health portal, provides a never-before seen approach to
comprehensive mammography screening in healthcare,” Kodak’s Marron said.
“The Kodak-NDMA association leverages the best of the best in technologies,
allowing everyone in the healthcare continuum to access information
on-demand. We are committed to interoperability, and pleased to be working
together with NDMA in Europe to achieve our respective goals.”
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