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Barbara Kram, Editor | October 18, 2005
The system is open and any site can join in a later phase. Our security and connectivity are key advantages. Earlier examples include Kodaks national projects within the NHS National Programme for IT in UK and Scotland, he said.
The RATU project is a pilot project for the country, aiming at creating a total solution for the five hospital districts for the production, processing and archiving of patient information. The Northern regions entire image, biosignal and text data of patients is stored in a central archive. This project is an important step towards a national Finnish patient record archive.
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About the RATU Project
RATU is a service product for the administration of imaging with one single database located in a data centre for the whole region. The Lappi Hospital District originated the predecessor of RATU in 1997. The RATU includes the hospital districts of Lappi, Lnsi-Pohja, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa, and Keski-Pohjanmaa, as well as Kainuu County. The region consists of 69 health care centers, and will produce over 700,000 exams annually with more than 8000 registered web users and 1000 concurrent users. RATU project is budgeted at 2.7 MEUR.
About Kodaks Health Group
Kodaks Health Group, with 2004 revenues of $2.68 billion, supplies the medical and dental professions with traditional and digital imaging and information systems. Its portfolio includes picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), IT solutions, clinical information solutions, computed and digital radiography systems, laser imagers, mammography and oncology systems, x-ray film systems, and dental imaging products. Its services portfolio includes everything from repair and maintenance, to professional services encompassing integration, storage and archiving, secure e-mail services and much more.
Kodaks other major businesses include: Graphic Communications providing customers with a range of solutions for prepress, traditional and digital printing, and document scanning and multi-vendor IT services; Digital & Film Imaging Systems providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; and Display & Components supplying original equipment manufacturers with imaging sensors as well as intellectual property and materials for the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and LCD display industries.
For more information about Kodak (NYSE:EK) contact your Kodak representative or visit www.kodak.com.
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