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Carestream Health, Inc: The Leader in Imaging

Carestream Health, Inc is an internationally successful company providing medical and dental imaging systems and information technology solutions; molecular imaging systems; and non-destructive testing products to a broad base of customers around the world.

Onex acquired the Health Group of Eastman Kodak Company in a multi-billion-dollar transaction in May 2007. Upon closing, the business began operating as a standalone company (Carestream Health, Inc) that is an independent subsidiary of Onex Corporation of Toronto. Prior to becoming Carestream Health, the Kodak Health Group recorded 2006 revenues of more than $2.5 billion.

Carestream Health has more than 8,100 employees, serving tens of thousands of customers in more than 150 countries. Carestream Health's many success stories include:

• Having its products and services present in 90 per cent of hospitals worldwide.
• Owning more than 1,000 patents for medical and dental imaging and information technology.
• Selling nearly two out of every five computed radiography (CR) systems in the US and Canada, and being the only company that designs, manufactures and sells both CR and DR (digital radiography) systems, which enable patient X-ray images to be captured digitally.
• Gaining share in the healthcare IT solutions market and building an installed base of more than 1,100 systems worldwide.
• Being the largest manufacturer of dental digital radiography systems in the world, it is a world leader in dental practice management systems.
• Offering a portfolio of solutions that is among the best in the world. This portfolio includes Carestream radiology solutions and information management solutions (RIS-PACS, IMS); CR and DR; CAD (computer aided detection); molecular imaging systems; medical and dental film; laser imagers; services; mammography and oncology solutions; and a range of digital and traditional film-based dental imaging products and dental practice management solutions.
• Securing the numero uno market position in all categories of film-digital output, radiology, mammography and dental.
• In India, Carestream Health commenced operations in early 90s, as the erstwhile Health Group of Kodak India. Since then, the business has grown to about Rs 175 crore in 2006. Carestream Health India has a comprehensive portfolio of image information products, services, applications and integrated systems, as well as the latest in x-ray films, laser films, computed radiography (CR) systems and medical laser.

The company also offers training and development initiatives for radiology professionals in the country, including orientation programmes, student workshops, patient awareness campaigns such as for breast cancer awareness, and publishes a journal - The Radiograph.