Company

Bracco Diagnostics – Ruby Sponsor

Phone: +1 609 514 2200
www.bracco.com

Bracco Imaging S.p.A. is one of the World’s leading companies in the diagnostic imaging business. Part of Bracco S.p.A., the holding company of Bracco Group, Bracco Imaging operates in over 90 markets worldwide, either directly or indirectly through subsidiaries, joint ventures, license and distribution partnership agreements. Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Bracco Imaging is one of the independent global players providing a large portfolio of imaging agents, i.e. products used during diagnostic imaging procedures to enhance anatomic and functional visualization of internal body organs and areas.

With an ongoing research covering all key modalities, Bracco Imaging has a strong presence in key geographies: North America; Europe and Japan. The Company also operates in Brazil, South Korea, and China.
Bracco Imaging offers products and solutions for all key diagnostic imaging modalities: X-Ray Imaging (including Computed Tomography-CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound and Nuclear Medicine through radioactive tracers. The offer is completed by medical devices and advanced administration systems for contrast imaging products in the fields of radiology. Bracco Imaging’s portfolio offering has been recently broadened with its new business unit Bracco Engineering which is committed to develop the best in class injector solutions. This will allow Bracco Imaging to strengthen its portfolio of automated system for the administration of contrast media.

Exprodo Software (Conaptic LTD)

Phone: +44 1235 813458
www.exprodo.com

Exprodo Software produces Calpendo, an intelligent facility management and booking system designed to manage scheduling and projects for shared equipment within your facility. Originally designed for a busy MR laboratory at the University of Oxford, Calpendo is now utilized in universities and research facilities across Europe, North America and Asia.

Calpendo is recognized as a best-in class online scheduling calendar with configurable rules to control who can book what, where and when. It has a fully-featured reporting system for producing usage, billing and auditing reports and, as an integrated system, allows for multi-faceted activity bookings. Additionally, Calpendo has full automated and targeted email capabilities for activity or booking notifications, confirmations and cancellations.

Calpendo takes the hassle out of booking and scheduling resources. From undergraduate student to administrator or research director, the bespoke user accessibility minimizes mistakes and stress and maximizes efficient use of your resources. Calpendo will save you time and money in such a way that you will never want to change your facility management and booking system.

GE Healthcare – Diamond Sponsor

www.gehealthcare.com

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter – great people and technologies taking on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT, patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients. For more information visit our website www.gehealthcare.com.

Hitachi Healthcare Americas

Phone: +1 (800) 800-3106
www.hitachimed.com

Headquartered in Twinsburg, Ohio, Hitachi Healthcare Americas Diagnostic Imaging Division delivers best in class medical imaging technologies for healthcare providers. Hitachi’s MRI, CT and Ultrasound technologies provide speed, comfort and quality for both physicians and patients alike and play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of disease while driving social innovation into healthcare. Hitachi’s Oval MR boasts the industry’s widest bore while the Oasis MR enjoys the highest open magnet field strength, both generating images of uncompromised quality. Our technologies enable unrivalled flexibility in positioning and streamlined workflows for technologists and physicians while allowing patients to be more comfortable resulting in a more cooperative patient and better imaging results. With an optimized and patient centric approach healthcare providers can deliver strong value into their communities and Hitachi is there to support them. Visit http://www.hitachimed.com/products/mri/.

Metrasens Ltd.

Phone: +44(0) 1684 21900
Email: Sales@metrasens.com
www.ferroguard.com

So much more than just another FMDS, Metrasens is proud to introduce MRI-Safety-Manager™, providing you with: Oversight, Education and Analytics. Only Ferroguard ferromagnetic detection solutions will provide you with confidence from added safety and best-in-class usability with no alarm fatigue.

Always mounted in Zone III and so fully compliant with ACR guidance, Ferroguard Assure is always ready to provide real visual early warning of risk items well in advance of the door, giving you adequate time to react to prevent an accident. Its intelligent Smart AlarmTM makes it the only FMD with zero alarms when exiting the room and zero alarms from MRI door movement; that’s with any door and without compromising detection of approaching risk items. Ferroguard Screener offers the highest sensitivity screening available, much faster and more reliable than a hand wand and ideal for screening of subjects to prevent frustrating and time-wasting image artefacts. Metrasens always provides comprehensive pre-planning and professional installation by certified product specialists; and with Ferroguard Assure, CEU-accredited in-service training is a standard part of the package.

Philips Healthcare – Diamond Sponsor

Phone: +31 40 27 85600
www.healthcare.philips.com

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovations.

The future of healthcare is one of the most pressing global issues of our time. The Healthcare sector’s vision is to improve the quality of clinicians’ and patients’ lives by simplifying the delivery of healthcare, improving clinical outcomes and reducing healthcare system costs around the world. This includes helping to improve the diagnosis, treatment and management of many of today’s deadly and debilitating diseases, such as cancer and heart disease.

By approaching healthcare from the perspective of a patient or a physician, we believe we can better understand clinical needs and create more innovative and meaningful solutions. By understanding a medical condition through the entire “cycle of care” – from prevention and screening, through diagnosis and treatment, to recovery and, where needed, long-term management – we can create more effective solutions. By focusing on enabling care in the hospital, in the home, or wherever else the patient might be, we can improve the quality of life for patients and their care providers. Through our consistent focus on all of these aspects of care, we can ultimately create the best solutions.

Siemens Healthcare GmbH – Ruby Sponsor

Phone: +49 91 3184 2924
www.siemens.com/healthcare

The Siemens Healthcare Sector is one of the world’s largest suppliers to the healthcare industry and a trendsetter in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, medical information technology and hearing aids. Siemens offers its customers products and solutions for the entire range of patient care from a single source – from prevention and early detection to diagnosis, and on to treatment and aftercare. By optimizing clinical workflows for the most common diseases, Siemens also makes healthcare faster, better and more cost-effective.

Managing rapid procedure growth, minimizing costs and improving satisfaction, while at the same time achieving clinical excellence are some of the central challenges affecting healthcare around the globe. Magnetic Resonance, a Business Unit of Siemens Healthcare, turns these challenges into opportunities. Four unique technologies, Tim, Dot, Trendsetting Applications, and Life Design, offer our customers exceptional image quality, efficiency & speed, and patient friendliness, while at the same time offering investment protection. Equipped with these technologies and a very strong global collaboration network, we enable our customers to lead MRI.