A Diagnostics & Imaging Week
Bracco Diagnostics (Princeton, New Jersey), one of the largest providers of imaging agents, and HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG; Brentwood, Tennessee), one of the largest healthcare group purchasing organizations in the U.S., reported a three-year agreement, to make Bracco Imaging’s (Milan, Italy) MRI contrast media products available to HealthTrust members through 2010.
This agreement includes MultiHance (gadobenate dimeglumine) injection, 529 mg/mL and ProHance (gadoteridol) injection 279.3 mg/mL.
“We are very excited to expand our partnership with HealthTrust to include our MR portfolio. This agreement provides HealthTrust members access to high quality MR contrast media,” said Carlo Medici, president/CEO, Bracco Diagnostics.
The agreement is effective Sept. 1, 2007 and extends through Aug. 31, 2010.
Bracco Diagnostics is the U.S.-basedsubsidiary of Bracco Imaging, which is part of the Bracco Group (Milan, Italy).
In other agreement news:
• Vital Images (Minneapolis), a provider of enterprise-wide advanced visualization and analysis solutions, reported that it has renewed its marketing and distribution agreement with Medicsight (London), a developer of computer-aided detection technologies and image analysis software.
The partnership gives Vital Images’ customers access to enhanced tools for the detection of suspicious regions within colorectal scans with the integration of Medicsight’s ColonCAD software into the Vitrea solution.
Jay Miller, Vital Images president/CEO, said, “We believe that virtual colonoscopy will become an increasingly important tool in diagnosing and treating colon cancer, and adding tools to increase efficiency in reading CT colon scans by offering the Medicsight ColonCAD functionality is a great benefit to our customers and their patients.”
The Medicsight ColonCAD product is currently available in Europe, Canada and Australia and will be available in the US pending FDA clearance. Vitrea software is Vital Images’ visualization solution that creates 2-D, 3-D and 4-D images of human anatomy from CT (computed tomography) and MR (magnetic resonance) image data.
• MGT Capital Investments, (New York) a holding company focused on the Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) sector, reported recent commercial partnerships for its subsidiary company Medicexchange (New York) a global web portal that delivers sales, jobs and information channels for diagnostic, treatment and surgery planning solutions across breast imaging, cardiac imaging, musculoskeletal imaging, abdominal-pelvic imaging, thoracic imaging and neuro imaging from a range of different companies.
The first partnership is with AllHealthcareJobs.com, whereby Medicexchange utilizes theAllHealthcareJobs.com job bank search engine to populate jobs.medicexchange.com. With more than 3,000 medical imaging and related job listings available, this agreement delivers the Internet’s largest online medical imaging employment site by far, the company said.
The second partnership is with Valley Forge Publishing Group (VFPG) who has signed an exclusive agreement to be Medicexchange’s sole advertising agent. This agreement will give medical imaging manufacturers and healthcare advertisers a suite of multiplatform marketing channels that are second to none.
Tim Paterson-Brown, chairman and CEO of MGT Capital, said, “These recent agreements allow us to accelerate our growth in the imaging market.”
MGT Capital Investments is a holding company that focuses on investments in the global healthcare information technology market.