Headquartered in Rochester, US, Carestream Health is a multinational professional medical group, which provides medical and dental imaging systems and IT solutions, as well as advanced materials for precision film and electronic markets for the world. At present, it has branches in more than 150 countries with over 600 patents and 6,000 employees worldwide.
Since it entered the Chinese market in 1993, Carestream Health has set up factories, regional headquarters and global R&D centers successively in the Shanghai Jinqiao Free Trade Zone. These have formed a complete industrial chain, including R&D, production, marketing, sales, and after-sales service. Meanwhile, it gives full play to the role of the regional headquarter in Shanghai, and links the factory in Xiamen and 17 offices in Hong Kong and Taiwan, to influence the entire Asia-Pacific region with Shanghai Free Trade Zone as the center.
In terms of technological innovation, the business of Shanghai R&D Center of Carestream Health covers all of the Group’s product lines, and supports its products in all countries and regions. It continues to provide top R&D ideas and technical services for the headquarters every year, and has turned into one of the most important R&D centers of Carestream Health in the world. The main products it develops are as follows: the Carestream digital image output device which ranks top 3 in global market share; and the latest generation of K3 self-service printing terminal, etc.
With regard to X-ray image, Carestream Health continuously expands DRX series imaging solutions to start a new intelligent mode for digital era, ranging from CARESTREAM DRX-1 system, DRX-Evolution to DRX-Revolution mobile digital medical X-ray photography system, as well as DRX-Ascend and DRX-Innovation digital medical X-ray photography system. With respect to medical IT, a series of medical image information management systems, including the P radiological imaging information system (RIS), picture archiving and communication system (PACS), and integrated image consultation system customized by Shanghai R&D center for the Chinese market, have been widely recognized and studied by the industry.
Carestream Health is always leading technologically in the fields of medical imaging and medical IT. It has created many “firsts” in the world: the world's first standard cassette size wireless flat panel detector; the world's first X-ray film; the world's first digital dental detector; the world's first medical dry laser printer; the world's first mobile DR; the world's first computed radiography (CR) imaging system, etc.
Carestream Health takes leading the trend of intelligent medicine as its mission. It is committed to providing integrated solutions of the whole radiation digital workflow for medical institutions, helping hospitals with resources allocation of various links from patient grade, digital X-ray imaging to diagnosis, printing and storage. By doing these, the company aims to meet hopotals’ demand with patients as the center and help customers realize all digital workflows to the most extent.