ROCHESTER, NY, July 19 -- The Kodak Company's Health Group is offering specialized, free educational sessions; independent healthcare experts to discuss real-life experiences.

Eastman Kodak Company will host more than 40 highly focused educational seminars--titled "Real Experiences - Real Results"--in major cities around the world to help medical professionals transform imaging and information in healthcare.

Specialized educational sessions from Kodak's Health Group will feature leading healthcare experts who will discuss issues and share experiences on how to achieve clinical and business results from digital medical imaging and information technology and associated business practices.
Kodak will be joined at these sessions by leading information technology companies including EMC, Cisco Systems, IBM and Sun Microsystems. Kodak's free, half-day educational seminars--open to healthcare practioners, senior healthcare executives, and IT professionals--will kick off in August in several cities including:

* New York, New York on August 19 at the Waldorf Astoria
* Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 26 at the John Heinz History Museum
* Portland, Oregon on August 30 at the World Trade Center
* Stockholm, Sweden on September 29 at the Clarion Hotel

Additional sessions are being scheduled in Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan, Australia, Germany, Canada and the U.S. Kodak will provide more information on these and other future sessions as it becomes available.

Among healthcare experts who will speak at these sessions on topics ranging from productivity to enterprise-wide data management are:

* John Halamka, MD, MS, Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School; Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN); Chief Information Officer of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI); and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Topic: "Healthcare IT: Connecting Providers and Patients"

* Eliot Siegel, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Image Information Systems, University of Maryland Department of Radiology; Chief of Imaging, VA Maryland Healthcare System.

Topic: "How to Get the Most Out of Your PACS: Transforming the Radiology Department"

* David S. Channin, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology; Chief of Imaging Informatics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Radiology.

Topic: "Streamlining Workflow: Addressing Common Challenges in Radiology"

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