Carestream delivers digital imaging to Canada
The Government of the Northwest Territories in Canada has implemented Carestream Health CR systems.
The project involved installation of a DirectView Classic CR system and a Carestream workstation at 18 community health centers located throughout the region, which covers 1.3 million square kilometers (519,731 square miles) and contains communities both above and below the Arctic Circle. Images are forwarded from the workstation to a server that transmits exams to a PACS installed at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife.
In the past, film images taken in the territory’s various community health centers were transported hundreds of miles to Yellowknife, the territorial capital, for reading and reporting—a process that could take up to two weeks for a diagnosis. Today images are available for reading in 10 to 15 minutes, Rochester, N.Y.-based Carestream said.
Transmission via satellite or microwave communications takes about 10 minutes per study, so urgent exams can be viewed immediately on the PACS by radiologists and other clinicians who provide diagnosis and treatment recommendations, according to Carestream, which provides medical imaging systems.
The project involved installation of a DirectView Classic CR system and a Carestream workstation at 18 community health centers located throughout the region, which covers 1.3 million square kilometers (519,731 square miles) and contains communities both above and below the Arctic Circle. Images are forwarded from the workstation to a server that transmits exams to a PACS installed at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife.
In the past, film images taken in the territory’s various community health centers were transported hundreds of miles to Yellowknife, the territorial capital, for reading and reporting—a process that could take up to two weeks for a diagnosis. Today images are available for reading in 10 to 15 minutes, Rochester, N.Y.-based Carestream said.
Transmission via satellite or microwave communications takes about 10 minutes per study, so urgent exams can be viewed immediately on the PACS by radiologists and other clinicians who provide diagnosis and treatment recommendations, according to Carestream, which provides medical imaging systems.