ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 28 -- Eastman Kodak Company is displaying a broad portfolio of new digital imaging and information products at the RSNA conference that can perform a wide range of functions in hospitals, outpatient imaging centers and medical specialty practices.

The space efficient KODAK DIRECTVIEW DR 3000 System--shown for the first time ever at RSNA--is a *works-in-progress solution designed to capture and enhance x-ray images with improved efficiency. This value priced system offers Kodak's premium image processing capabilities and workflow enhancements. The DR 3000 system's flexible floor mounted design is an ideal single detector solution for hospitals and diagnostic imaging centers.

Kodak's Health Group also demonstrated other new products at RSNA including:
* A works-in-progress solution that will enable Kodak's computer aided detection (CAD) system for mammography to also run bone mineral density tests. The same women who are screened for breast cancer are often at risk for osteoporosis. Therefore, having a "two-in-one" CAD system can be a great benefit for women's healthcare centers. The same system that produces mammography images can be used to take an x-ray of a women's hand. Special CAD software from Kodak will be able to analyze an x-ray of a woman's hand to produce a report that will indicate the woman's bone density.
* Kodak's new CR Long-Length Portable Imaging System--a small, portable, lightweight medical imaging accessory for capturing images of bones up to 33 inches long. Kodak's proprietary stitching software provides a nearly seamless long-length image that is ready for diagnosis without any need for manual intervention by technologists or radiologists. The new system can capture erect and supine medical images in hospital x-ray rooms, surgical suites and orthopaedic clinics, and can easily be moved to conduct patient bedside exams.
* KODAK CARESTREAM Solutions (see details below) are complete image and information systems that enhance communication of patient data across the continuum of care. These solutions, which include KODAK CARESTREAM Radiology Solutions and KODAK CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions, are designed to improve care delivery, patient safety and efficiency while delivering cost savings for radiology departments, healthcare organizations and communities.

PACS Contract Inked
Also at RSNA, Kodak's Health Group announced the signing of the largest contract ever for picture archiving and communications system (PACS) and KODAK CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions (IMS). The multi-million-dollar agreement is with National Services Scotland (NSS)to become the leading supplier to the NSS-led Scotland National PACS e-health project.

The company also announced availability of its KODAK DIRECTVIEW DR 7500 System. This premium digital radiography system offers outstanding image quality and is scalable to meet the space and budget requirements of a wide range of healthcare facilities.

"The new products we are showing at RSNA are the result of big investments we are making in healthcare, and are representative of our expertise across the broad portfolio of products and services that enable the digital transformation of healthcare," said Kevin J. Hobert, President of Kodak's Health Group. "We are committed to helping healthcare providers achieve real results--improving both the quality and cost of patient care."

Medical Imaging at Olympic Winter Games

Kodak also displayed several medical imaging and information systems that will enable healthcare professionals to digitally acquire and view medical images to help treat athletes at on-site medical facilities during the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy.

These systems will enable medical teams at two state-of-the-art Olympic polyclinics--in Torino and Sestriere, Italy--to treat life- and career-threatening injuries, as well as common muscle and ligament tears, for athletes from around the world. A broad range of Kodak medical imaging and information solutions that will be used to capture, view, manage, print and archive patient medical images will include:
* The KODAK DIRECTVIEW DR 9000 System that captures patient x-ray images digitally in seconds;
* KODAK DIRECTVIEW CR 850 and CR 950 Systems that offer exceptional image quality and ease of use (with the CR 950 System, a digital image is available for preview in as little as 30 seconds);
* KODAK CARESTREAM Radiology Solutions;
* KODAK CARESTREAM PACS;
* KODAK DRYVIEW Laser Imaging Systems for the printing of digital x-ray exams to radiographic film for sharing with referring physicians or for archival purposes.

Enhancements to DRYVIEW 8900 Imager; Debuts New Image Output Software as Works-in-Progress \t

KODAK also announced a faster and smaller version of its flagship KODAK DRYVIEW 8900 Laser Imaging System and demonstrated as a *works-in-progress new software that will provide hospitals, imaging centers and clinics with an easy-to-use application for assembling images from digital modalities for printing, archiving, displaying and reporting.

The newest version of the DRYVIEW 8900 Laser Imager features 25 percent faster time to first print. The imager, which is six inches smaller, also supports five film sizes and produces every image at 650 dpi resolution. This level of performance and image resolution offers a unique combination of features to satisfy the most demanding medical imaging applications.

Efficient Image Assembly, Distribution
Kodak also demonstrated its new KODAK Medical Image Central Software works-in-progress solution, which will equip users to more efficiently assemble images into a desired format for display and printing. This software enables images to be "dragged and dropped" into user-designed templates. These image files can be printed on film or paper, stored on CD/DVD and/or displayed on a monitor. An image viewer is automatically written to each CD/DVD, which eliminates the needs for physicians' offices to install special software to view images.

The new software enables printing to DICOM printers from all vendors and WINDOWS-based paper printers. It can streamline the distribution of images for facilities that do not have a picture archiving and communications system (PACS), and when integrated with a PACS, hospital or radiology information systems (HIS/RIS), it optimizes image quality and enhances workflow by combining the radiology report with selected images.
Other key benefits include:
* Enhanced staff productivity with an automatic process that simplifies the assembly and output of images.
* Greater referring physician satisfaction since templates and selected media can be customized to address the needs of individual physicians or specialties.

Kodak markets a complete family of digital output devices that produce black-and-white and color images onto radiographic film and paper.


More about the CARESTREAM Medical Imaging and Information Solutions Portfolio:\t

KODAK's new CARESTREAM solutions deliver improved workflow and information sharing among its entire portfolio of medical imaging and information management products. KODAK CARESTREAM Solutions are complete image and information systems that enhance communication of patient data across the continuum of care. These solutions, which include KODAK CARESTREAM Radiology Solutions and KODAK CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions, are designed to improve care delivery, patient safety and efficiency while delivering cost savings for radiology departments, healthcare organizations and communities.

"Our CARESTREAM Radiology Solutions help automate the diagnostic exam process and enable fast and efficient storage, distribution and on-demand retrieval of a patient's entire radiology record to authorized users within the enterprise," said Michael W. Jackman, General Manager, Healthcare Information Solutions, and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. "In addition, CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions can meet the needs of communities by providing access to images and information beyond the walls of institutions as part of eHealth solutions."

Kodak's radiology solutions include KODAK CARESTREAM PACS and KODAK CARESTREAM RIS (radiology information system). CARESTREAM Radiology Solutions provide a comprehensive architecture that addresses the diverse operational needs of clinics, imaging centers, hospitals and healthcare networks, including orthopaedic, mammography and oncology facilities.

Jackman emphasized that Kodak's powerful CARESTREAM solutions can be easily integrated with third-party radiology, clinical, or hospital information systems--including third-party RIS/PACS systems--to create a highly productive desktop and workflow environment for customers that want to use components from other suppliers. The KODAK CARESTREAM architecture can be scaled to meet the needs of small-to-large hospitals and medical practices as well as regional or national healthcare information systems, all within the same software framework.
Kodak also introduced a new entry-level WINDOWS solution that bundles a PACS workstation with a storage server and with KODAK computed radiography systems. This combination offers an affordable digital imaging solution ideal for imaging centers, clinics or smaller hospitals. This solution--now available worldwide--is scaleable and can be easily upgraded to a more fully featured PACS as a facility's needs change.

Newest PACS Software Supports User Tools at Any Workstation
New *works-in-progress features for KODAK CARESTREAM PACS include:
* CARESTREAM user-centric architecture that will support individual preferences, such as display protocols, menus and tools, from any workstation at any location inside or outside the institution. This will provide vastly improved flexibility for users who no longer need to use a specific workstation at a designated location to access tools required to perform desired tasks. It will also be more cost-effective, since institutions will have floating licenses that are tied to user needs and not restricted to an individual workstation.
* Automated installation and software updates via the Internet for a more efficient thin client environment.
* Enhancements to Kodak's native real-time 3D capabilities with more interactive MPR functionality, more detailed reporting from automated vessel analysis and minimum intensity projection.
* New cardiac CT functions including calcium scoring, automated heart axis detection and rib cage removal, and coronary analysis tools and reporting.
* Ability to integrate 3D key images, 3D analysis reports (such as 3D vessel analysis and calcium scoring) and the radiology report into a single electronic report for distribution to clinicians and referring physician s.
Latest RIS Features Maximize Utilization of Personnel, Equipment
The latest version of the KODAK CARESTREAM RIS will provide new functionality to maximize the utilization of personnel and equipment. It will also increase radiologist productivity and improve patient satisfaction. New features include:
* Scheduling enhancements such as color-coded visual indicators of patient status to address patient wait times.
* Single-click generation of normal reports and workload indicators for single-click access to studies in different stages of completion.
* The ability to interrupt, and then resume, report dictation to address urgent cases without loss of work.
* Remote diagnostic dictation and report signing through a Web module that increases convenience for reading radiologists through flexibility of location.
Information Management Solutions Address Enterprise, Regional Needs
Kodak is focused beyond radiology solutions to address the patient information management needs of hospital and healthcare systems. Kodak's CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions are installed at more than 120 locations worldwide. These solutions go beyond conventional storage functions to provide efficient intelligent life cycle management of data, while enabling access to images and information stored in many platforms and locations across a healthcare enterprise or regional community.

Kodak's information management solutions include KODAK CARESTREAM Enterprise Information Management (EIM), KODAK CARESTREAM Hosted Information Management (HIM) and KODAK CARESTREAM Regional Information Management (RIM). These solutions are composed of software, industry-standard hardware and professional services that can include network analysis and upgrades, data migration, secure email service and other options.

"These solutions enable the right information to be available any place and any time, regardless of where the information is stored or where it originated," Jackman added.

CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions provide storage virtualization and automatic and intelligent, rules-based clinical information life cycle management that can be customized to the unique requirements of single and multi-site healthcare systems, and communities, regions or countries that want to collaborate to improve care and lower costs through eHealth solutions or Regional Healthcare Information Organizations (RHIO).

"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.
* The KODAK Point-of-Care CR 300M System for Mammography--a *works-in-progress--is a compact, dedicated tabletop CR system for mammography applications. The small size and cost-effective price point of this digital product will make it attractive for in-room applications at clinics, mammography imaging centers or specialty areas within a hospital.

New CAD Capabilities
Kodak showcased enhanced flexibility for its film-based mammography CAD system and announced that it is also developing digital CAD algorithms (currently a *works-in-progress) for full-field digital mammography and CR systems for mammography.

Enhancements to Kodak's film-based mammography CAD System include:
* New options for viewing CAD results in portrait or landscape mode that allows radiologists to configure the system to specific hanging preferences.
* Ability to save scanned mammograms as DICOM files so as films are digitized for CAD, they can also be sent to an archive or any vendor's PACS system. This facilitates efficient digital access to the image files and is especially useful for facilities that anticipate transitioning to digital mammography since cases that are digitized for CAD will automatically be available as prior exams.
* Ability to save log files from the system and report the number of markers per film and per case.
* Another *works-in-progress solution that will enable Kodak's mammography CAD hardware to also run bone mineral density tests. Using the same film and x-ray unit as a mammogram, an x-ray of a woman's hand will be produced and scanned by the CAD digitizer. The software will automatically analyze the hand image to produce a report that will indicate the woman's bone density. The ability to perform both types of exams on the same equipment and film will offer enhanced productivity and ease of use for healthcare facilities and a more comprehensive exam for patients.

New Features for CARESTREAM Radiology Solutions for Mammography
Kodak also demonstrated enhancements to its portfolio of information management solutions for mammography providers.

New mammography-specific features for Kodak's CARESTREAM RIS platform include: automatic generation of patient letters and pending requests for annual recalls, and a mammography information drawing tool with annotation capability.

The KODAK CARESTREAM PACS now supports: storing of original images and a single secondary capture image containing CAD markers for some digital CAD systems; and support for additional mixed color and resolution monitor displays.

Kodak also showed as a *works-in-progress automatic justification of different mammographic views; tissue inversion; and the integration of Confirma's CADstream with Kodak's CARESTREAM PACS platform. This integration will enhance radiologists' productivity by providing the ability to view CAD results for breast MRI exams from diagnostic workstations.

Kodak showcased its CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions, which accommodate archiving requirements specific to mammography. These solutions provide automatic, intelligent clinical information lifecycle management for the large data sets associated with mammography exams, and maintain quick access to prior exams necessary for comparisons. Storage of data in a patient-centric manner facilitates preservation and access to information. Cost-effective pricing structures, including a Kodak-hosted service offering, accommodate the financial needs of mammography centers.

"We offer an innovative portfolio of image capture, display and information management solutions for mammography," L. Jeffrey Markin, General Manager, Output Systems and Mammography Solutions, and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. "Our CARESTREAM Radiology Solutions platforms offer productivity-enhancing, mammography-specific features and we also offer professional services that help mammography smoothly transition to a digital workflow."

KODAK Services Help Improve Efficiency, Smooth Digital Transition
In addition to its comprehensive portfolio of imaging and information management solutions for mammography, Kodak offers a full range of services to help customers improve efficiency, increase productivity and transition to digital imaging solutions. Services include: workflow analysis and redesign, project management, change management and the development of new policies and procedures to help customers maintain compliance with governmental regulations.