California Hospital orders slew of Kodak systems in move to digital

In its move to digital, Oak Valley Hospital in Oakdale, Calif. has selected Eastman Kodak Company's Health Group for PACS, an enterprise information management system, and CR.

Specifically, the mid-sized community hospital will install a DirectView CR 850 and 950 Systems for general radiography exams in the hospital's radiology department and outpatient imaging center. A DirectView PACS System 5 will also manage images from CR and other modalities.

The final piece of the digital puzzle will be a Kodak Carestream enterprise information management system for centralized management of medical information across the entire enterprise, Kodak said.

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