Sunday, November 22

Athletes injured during the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games have the benefit of world-class digital health imaging equipment and services from Kodak for prompt diagnosis. The University of Utah medical center will staff an Olympic Polyclinic facility at the Olympic Village, as well as satellite first aid centers.

Kodak's state-of-the-art art diagnostic imaging equipment will allow Olympic medical staff to acquire and view digital images to help diagnose life- and career-threatening injuries, and muscle and ligament tears.

Kodak's technologies enable Olympic Polyclinic doctors to provide fast and accurate diagnosis and begin treatment.

 Dr. Patrick Schamash

Listen to Dr. Patrick Schamash describes the critical role infoimaging plays in diagnosing athletes' injuries. (.mp3 format)

Infoimaging in sports medicine can spell the difference between a competitor and a spectator. During the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, a young gymnast experienced recurring ankle pain that didn't respond to treatment. With the help of Kodak technology, doctors correctly diagnosed the true problem and provided proper treatment, enabling her to resume competition.

Kodak's Health Imaging division served 1,410 athletes through a total of 1,948 exams at the Sydney Olympics. Kodak anticipates many more exams at the Salt Lake City Games because of the nature of winter sports.

Kodak will equip the Polyclinic with:

  • A fully outfitted digital radiography room with a Kodak DirectView DR 9000 Digital Radiography system that produces digital X-ray images in just 10 seconds.

  • Kodak DirectView Diagnostic Workstations that enable immediate viewing of digital images for interpretation by radiologists. The Polyclinic will also have fast, on-line access to athletes' radiological images stored in the Kodak DirectView PACS EXL System.

  • Kodak 3600 Distributed Medical Imager (DMI) to provide athletes with print copies of their images.

  • Kodak dental products such as Kodak InSight Dental Film, Kodak Ektavision G and L Extraoral Imaging Dental Film, Kodak Readymatic Dental Chemicals, and Cook-Waite Dental Anesthetics.

Kodak is working with other imaging equipment providers for the Polyclinic including GE, who will be supplying a mobile Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system, and ATL Ultrasound/Philips Medical Systems, who will provide an ultrasound unit.

For details on Kodak's Health Imaging business, click here.

 

  

Steven Brooks, applications consultant with Kodak Health Imaging, checks out the Kodak DirectView 9000 System operator console at the Polyclinic.

Laura Gronberg, applications consultant with Kodak Health Imaging, reviews digital X-ray images with the Kodak DirectView DX workstation at the Polyclinic.
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