Almost 2,000 medical and dental imaging exams were performed using Kodak equipment during the Games. State-of-the-art digital imaging and information systems from Kodak, Official Sponsor of the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, enabled images of injured athletes to be sent to medical specialists in an offsite location in seconds. All of this critical information was stored and archived on equipment provided by Kodak Health Imaging Division, a StorageTek partner, to allow healthcare organisations to store, retrieve and secure digital images and information.
"StorageTek is a highly valued partner for Kodak's Health Imaging business and engages with us on a variety of programs, and we especially appreciated the data management services and support that StorageTek provided for our Polyclinic program during the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games," said Gregory Walker, director and division vice president, Alliance, Presence & Multicultural Marketing, Eastman Kodak Company.
StorageTek® (Storage Technology Corporation, NYSE: STK), the leading provider of enterprise information lifecycle management, supplied Kodak with StorageTek's D-series(tm) disk storage system and an L-series(tm) tape library, which were installed directly at the Athens Olympic Polyclinic where Kodak set up its standard imaging system, PACS System V.
Kodak Healthcare chose StorageTek as a partner for the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games because of the companies' long-standing relationship aimed at providing storage solutions to healthcare facilities and StorageTek's leadership in working with PACS vendors to serve the medical community.
Walker explained that StorageTek provided "a tape library for our PACS system, memory banks for our RAID system and drivers for our PACS, and duplicated several of these same services in our Milan remote storage archives. In addition, they provided all of the consumables for the tape library and high storage discs, along with technical support for our Athens and Milan locations."
"All of this support was critically important to the effective implementation of our diagnostic imaging services in the Polyclinic, where over 1,400 examinations were conducted during the Games," Walker said.
"StorageTek, through its partnership with Kodak, understands the complex needs of healthcare providers and offers a complete information lifecycle management solution to store and archive medical images in an efficient and secure manner," said Gary Zasman, StorageTek director of information lifecycle management solutions. "We were proud to team up with Kodak at the Olympic Games to serve the needs of our partners."
