Carestream Health Announces Worldwide Availability of Its Expanded Information Management Platform

ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 18 - Carestream Health, Inc., announced that its newest version of KODAK CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions (IMS) will be available worldwide by the end of June.      

This expanded platform offers healthcare providers more convenient viewing of medical imaging exams and other types of patient documents, in addition to managing and storing these files through a centralized database.

The newest IMS upgrade equips clinicians to view patient data and images from any location through a virtual desktop. For example, laboratory and pathology reports, video files and other patient data can be viewed side-by-side with DICOM imaging studies. This simplified access to patient data can enhance the diagnostic process and simultaneously deliver improved productivity since clinicians no longer need to go to several locations to view different types of files.

The updated CARESTREAM IMS platform incorporates standards such as the XDS (cross enterprise document sharing) protocol in addition to existing support of HL7 to receive and store reports together with clinical patient data and other documents from clinical information systems.

This platform also enables stringent controls on viewing of patient information. System administrators can grant physicians and staff either read-only or read/write privileges and access can further be limited to individual patient files or specific exam modalities.

The CARESTREAM IMS platform also helps image-enable EMRs, since these systems are usually limited to transactional data and do not offer access to imaging applications.

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About Carestream Health, Inc.

Carestream Health, Inc., is a leading provider of dental and medical imaging systems and healthcare IT solutions; molecular imaging systems for the life science research and drug discovery/development market segments; and x-ray film and digital x-ray products for the non-destructive testing market. The company was formed in 2007 when Onex Corporation (TSX: OCX.TO) purchased Eastman Kodak Company’s Health Group. For more information about Carestream Health, contact your Carestream Health representative or visit www.carestreamhealth.com.

CARESTREAM is a trademark of Carestream Health, Inc.

KODAK is a trademark of Kodak used under license.

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