"We wanted to go beyond implementing a standalone digital image management system for the radiology department and instead create a centralized software platform that could provide access to all of the hospital's image and information systems including PACS," said Mary Kasal, Good Samaritan Hospital's Vice President of Information Technology. "We expect Kodak's CARESTREAM EIM to save us up to $3 million in the next five years by eliminating the capital expense and maintenance costs required to support dozens of standalone information systems."

CARESTREAM RIM can extend intelligent information life cycle management to an entire geographic region, and has been deployed as part of Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS) National Programme for IT and Northern Finland's RATU eHealth project. CARESTREAM HIM offers business continuity and disaster recovery by hosting an organization's data remotely at a secure Kodak data center. This service offering allows customers to manage information as an operating expense and minimize capital investments.


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Kodak Also Shows CR Systems for Mammography at RSNA; and Company Demos Enhanced CARESTREAM Radiology Solutions for Mammography \t

At RSNA, Eastman Kodak Company also showed digital image capture systems for mammography exams, announced new capabilities for its computer aided detection (CAD) system for mammography, and debuted enhancements to its radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communications system (PACS) platforms for mammography at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Specifically, at RSNA, Kodak demonstrated:
* The KODAK DIRECTVIEW CR Mammography Feature for CR 850, CR 950 and CR 975 Systems is intended to offer the ability to produce mammography images using KODAK DIRECTVIEW CR Mammography Cassettes and new EHR-M screens. This optional feature can enable healthcare facilities to perform general radiography and mammography exams on the same computed radiography (CR) platform. The affordability and versatility of computed radiography offers a practical entry into digital mammography. Kodak has installed hundreds of CR systems with its mammography feature outside the United States. This feature is currently available in Europe, Greater Asia, Japan and Latin America. Clinical trials are underway and Kodak has begun the pre-market submission process with the Food & Drug Administration in the United States. Kodak also plans to seek regulatory approval from Health Canada.

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