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The John Hunter hospital in New South Wales has adopted storage solution provider StorageTek's D-series disk products to support its rapidly expanding picture archiving and communications system (PACS).
Mothers in NSW can look forward to their maternity data being recorded on a new state-wide database designed to provide better access to life-saving information. However the data will also be made available to GPs over the Web as well as used for research purposes.
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