Carestream Health to upgrade Scottish PACS

National Services Scotland (NSS) has reached a new agreement with Carestream Health to upgrade and migrate PACS across the country’s 34 hospitals.

As part of the agreement, Rochester, N.Y.-based Carestream will replace all hardware with new WinTel platforms configured with Carestream Vue PACS V11 software. New compression, storage and retention plans will also be implemented on the National Archives.

The upgrade is scheduled for completion in November 2013, according to Carestream.

Carestream had completed an initial PACS installation across NSS in 2009.


Evan Godt
Evan Godt, Writer

Evan joined TriMed in 2011, writing primarily for Health Imaging. Prior to diving into medical journalism, Evan worked for the Nine Network of Public Media in St. Louis. He also has worked in public relations and education. Evan studied journalism at the University of Missouri, with an emphasis on broadcast media.

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