VIENNA, March 3, 2006 Over the past year Eastman Kodak Companys Health Group has been awarded a number of high-profile contracts to implement regional e-health projects in line with the European Commissions e-Health Action Plan. As a result, KODAK CARESTREAM PACS and KODAK CARESTREAM Regional Information Management Solution (IMS) are rapidly becoming established across the European Union as the industry benchmark for national, regional and community based e-health programs. These and other contracts represent a total of over 200 European sites generating over 8 million studies per year and are being deployed in the next 12-18 months.

The growth in PACS and healthcare IT capability has led a growing number of regional and national bodies to source solutions that enable them to centralize the management of patient data, said Patrick Koch, Marketing Manager Healthcare Information Solutions, Europe, Africa and Middle East Region (EAMER). Kodak technology enables customers to realize their ambitions of creating patient centric folders. Our information management solutions allow our customers to store and manage data from multiple sources not just radiology images and establish the foundation of a clinical data repository. Archiving of all medical data, not only DICOM images, is now a huge growth area in the industry, as the adoption of PACS and other clinical systems increases, and Kodak is a key industry leader in this area of the market.

Recent Kodak e-health successes across the European Union include:
- Scotland National PACS e-Health project, National Services Scotland: up to 39 hospitals and 67 satellite centers, 3.2 million annual studies. PACS data will be archived centrally at two data centers, which will serve the 16 Health Boards across Scotland. Every hospital across the region will have the ability to readily access prior images and reports, regardless of where they were generated, to help radiologists deliver a faster, more accurate diagnosis. Kodak will work with a number of 3rd party vendors to execute the objectives of the project. Implementation will begin with two initial sites in Glasgow; the Southern General, which includes the Institute of Neurological Sciences and the Victoria Infirmary. A phased roll-out will follow over the next 2.5 years with full deployment anticipated in 2008. Kodaks association with the Scottish e-health project builds on an existing NSS contract for the purchase of Practice Works dental software.

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