PACS for Scotland

Kodak Health Group and National Services Scotland recently signed a formal contract, at the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, which officially appointed Kodak as the leading supplier to the Scotland National PACS project.

The project, to be phased in over the next two and a half years, will connect up to 39 hospitals and 67 satellite centres across the country, handling around 3.2 million annual studies.
At the event, Andy Kerr, Scotland’s Minister for Health, was introduced to Kodak’s PACS system by Diane Thompson of Kodak’s Health Group

01.05.2006

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