European hospitals place DR orders with Carestream

Carestream Health announced that it has recently signed contracts with several European healthcare facilities for a number of its Kodak Directview direct radiography (DR) systems.

The following are some of the healthcare facilities throughout Europe that have placed orders for Kodak Directview DR systems: Nantes University Hospital in France; Mikkeli Central Hospital in Finland; Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust as well as East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust in the United Kingdom; Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität in Germany; and Bethlehem Krankenhaus in Germany, according to the Rochester, N.Y. Carestream.

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