CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WHITIA, a global non-profit social venture focused on bringing affordable healthcare technologies to medical facilities in limited-resource areas, today announced that it has completed two digital X-ray pilot site installations in Guatemala. The organization said that these sites will serve as the model for both urban and rural installations throughout the country.
“We would like to thank our partners, funders and all of the individuals who worked with us to successfully complete these installations,” said Ivy Walker, WHITIA’s CEO. “Many thousands of individuals in urban Guatemala City and rural Rio Hondo now have access to an important, essential healthcare technology through their community medical providers. This technology will be used to significantly improve the delivery of care in the communities served by these medical facilities. We look forward to helping these sites continue to improve their ability to provide quality medical care through the addition of telemedicine. We also look forward to using these sites as models for additional installations.”
The digital X-ray installation at Salud y Bienestar Clinica Municipal in Guatemala City involved the participation of several of WHITIA’s partners including Merge Healthcare which provided the PACS and image management software, Sedecal which provided the digital X-ray system, Carestream Health which donated the computed radiography system (CR) and Kane X-ray which donated personnel to perform the CR and PACS installations.
source: Business Wire
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This is where xray continuing education programs comes into all radiologists out there as it is one of the tools that they can use to learn about new technologies such as this one.
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