Kodak Announces Aggressive Push Into Healthcare IT; Kodak's Health Gr

Kodak Announces Aggressive Push Into Healthcare IT; Kodak's Health Group Introduces New Software, IT Systems, Secure E-mail Features at HIMSS

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    DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2005--Eastman Kodak Company announced today it plans an aggressive push into the fast-growing market for healthcare information technology (IT) by introducing a portfolio of software and systems that will enable healthcare providers to work more efficiently, improve clinical processes and ultimately enhance patient care.
    As part of this effort, the company has renamed its Health Imaging business that serves the healthcare market. The business will now be known as Kodak's Health Group, reflecting its transformation beyond its worldwide success in radiology to one that now offers a full range of digital systems, technology and services to capture, share and manage medical images and related information.
    Kodak's Health Group is developing and marketing digital equipment and healthcare IT systems for use throughout a hospital and its affiliated organizations. The estimated $60 billion healthcare IT market in which Kodak competes is growing at 10 percent, compared with 6 percent for its traditional market.
    The company is entering the healthcare IT market with a range of proven digital imaging, information, communications and services offerings, including a new portfolio known as KODAK CARESTREAM Solutions, which make it easy for physicians and administrative personnel to collect and share patient information--including medical images--to accelerate and improve care. Kodak unveiled this technology today at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Dallas.
    KODAK CARESTREAM solutions deliver an efficient method for managing information and images--captured by a variety of systems--to create image-enabled electronic medical records (EMR). Kodak's expertise in data archiving, secure communications, network design, consulting services and more--combined with the company's new IT offerings--enable Kodak to now help surgery, pharmacy, cardiology and other departments in healthcare facilities combine images and data and improve their operations.

    Kodak is making several other announcements at HIMSS including:

--	An agreement with CISCO Systems, making Kodak the first medical device company to bundle CISCO Security Agents (CSA) with medical imaging and information systems. CSA technology can intercept and block malicious software, thereby improving the performance of medical imaging systems.
--	Collaboration with IBM, where the two companies will develop a specialized, cost-effective, radiology information system (RIS) for imaging centers and smaller healthcare facilities. A RIS functions as the information management backbone for radiology providers. The goal is to offer software and hardware combinations that are more affordable, less complex and easier to implement.
--	New features for KODAK Secure Email Service, including an electronic postmark by the U.S. Postal Service verifying the message content has not changed while ensuring delivery to the intended recipient. KODAK Secure Email Service reduces the privacy or security risks associated with Internet-based email systems.
--	A new suite of RIS/PACS (picture archiving and communications) digital imaging and information systems to meet the needs of hospitals, imaging centers, orthopedic practices and other healthcare facilities. RIS/PACS technology can help improve workflow, eliminate manual data entry, facilitate collections and improve patient care.

    With Kodak's information management technology, healthcare IT personnel can more efficiently manage the exponential growth of information being captured, stored and accessed within and across multiple healthcare facilities.

    About Kodak's Health Group

    Kodak's Health Group, with 2004 revenues of $2.68 billion, is a world leader in supplying the medical and dental professions with advanced healthcare products, services and information technology (IT) solutions. Its broad product portfolio includes picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), enterprise and departmental healthcare information systems, computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) systems, laser imagers, mammography systems, x-ray film systems for general radiography, and dental imaging products. Its broad services portfolio includes everything from repair and maintenance, to professional services encompassing equipment integration, business consulting, storage and archiving, secure e-mail services - and more.
    Kodak's Health Group and Eastman Kodak Company's (NYSE: EK) other major businesses: Graphic Communications - offering on-demand color and black and white printing, wide-format inkjet printing, high-speed, high-volume continuous inkjet printing, as well as document scanning, archiving and multi-vendor IT services; Digital & Film Imaging Systems - providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; and Display & Components - which designs and manufactures state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode displays as well as other specialty materials, and delivers imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers--together are committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy.
    For more information about Kodak's Health Group, contact your Kodak representative or visit www.kodak.com/go/health.

    (Note: KODAK and CARESTREAM are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company.)

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CONTACT: Media: Eastman Kodak Company John LaBella, 585-724-6891 john.labella@kodak.com or Robert Salmon, 585-724-7206 robert.salmon@kodak.com

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