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Sound Imaging Successfully Installs Innovative Voice-Activated MRI Room Alert System at Northwestern Medical Center

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San Diego, April 2024 – Sound Imaging, a pioneering MRI product development firm, is excited to announce the successful installation of its patent-pending MRI Room Alert System at Northwestern Medical Center, 133 Fairfield St. Saint Albans, VT 05478. This marks a significant milestone in enhancing MRI safety with the latest voice-activated technology.

Customer feedback: “I feel we are safer than ever in this unique room and this safety exists 24/7, something we never had before.”

Marc Bessette, R.T. (R) (MR)

Lead MRI Technologist, Diagnostic Imaging, Northwestern Medical Center

A New Era of MRI Safety

Developed in collaboration with top MRI safety experts, the MRI Room Alert System aims to substantially improve safety protocols, decrease liability risks, and accelerate emergency responses in MRI settings. The newly installed system at [Medical Facility Name] incorporates advanced voice-activation technology, ensuring critical alerts can be issued swiftly and effectively, even in situations where conventional methods may be unfeasible.

Key Features of the MRI Room Alert

The MRI Room Alert boasts several innovative features that significantly boost safety for both patients and healthcare staff:

  • Targeted Emergency Notifications: Allows for immediate communication with in-house personnel via audible alerts, phone calls, emails, or texts, ensuring rapid response to:
    • Serious or life-threatening patient emergencies.
    • Technical malfunctions needing immediate attention.
  • Enhanced Response Options: Allows communication with up to six contacts via calls, emails, or texts with pre-defined customizable messages, ensuring flexibility and efficiency in crisis management.
  • Voice-Activated Assistance: Enables emergency assistance to be summoned by simply saying “Call 9-1-1” twice or pressing a dedicated button, guaranteeing that help is dispatched promptly regardless of the method used.
  • Remote Monitoring Enhancements (available with MRI Room Alert Plus):
    • Instant visual access to the MRI room via mobile phones.
    • Initiation of audio calls and messages upon motion detection within the MRI suite.
    • Remote video capabilities to assess and respond to the cause of alerts.

*Disclaimer, all user-defined phone numbers that are alerted by the MRI Room Alert should only be to qualified MRI safety-trained individuals that fit the ACR’s description of either Level 1 or Level 2 MR personnel. 

About Sound Imaging

Established in 1996, Sound Imaging, Inc. is at the forefront of designing and manufacturing cutting-edge MRI products that promote a safer, more comfortable patient experience. Based in San Diego, the company is dedicated to delivering high-quality, cost-effective imaging solutions with a guaranteed low-price on all products.

For more details on the MRI Room Alert System and other innovations, visit www.SoundImaging.com.

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SMI Imaging Center, San Diego installs its first Patent Pending MRI Room Alert

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SMI Imaging Center, San Diego installs its first Patent Pending MRI Room Alert

San Diego, Jan 2023 – Sound Imaging, a leading MRI product development firm has installed its new patent-pending voice-activated MRI Room Alert System at SMI Imaging Center, San Diego. Developed in conjunction with leading MRI safety experts, the MRI Room Alert seeks to increase safety, reduce liability, and improve emergency response time.

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“ We are a dedicated MRI Center and due to our focus on MRI safety is our utmost concern. I now feel much more confident when someone is in the MRI, anybody is in the MRI that we will be alerted to potential or actual safety issues.” 

“Gerardo “Lalo” Verdugo R.T (R) (CRT) (ARRT), SMI Center manager”

The MRI Room Alert is a voice-activated device that monitors the MRI room constantly. When unique keywords are spoken, a battery of alert activities takes place.  These alerts can be used to call, text, email, and/or sonic to announce a safety issue in the MRI room – a room that can turn deadly quickly.  The voice-activated feature is unique in that it not only works in the MRI room environment if one can reach the device but also can be activated if someone is stuck to the magnet. 

MRI Room Alert features:

  • Notify/Alert user-designated in-house personnel in emergency situations through audible alerts, outbound phone calls, and/or emails/texts from the Base unit. These emergencies include:
    * Patients experiencing serious or life-threatening medical emergencies.
    * Assistance required for malfunctioning equipment.
  • Ability to call one person and/or email and text up to six people with predefined customizable messages.
  • Notify/Alert during a quench while in the room.
  • Obtain help by pressing a button or simply saying “Call 9-1-1” twice. Regardless of the method chosen, help will be dispatched promptly.
  • Instantly view the MRI Room on your mobile phone with an optional remote (MRI Room Alert Plus).
  • Audio calls and messages are initiated when motion is detected in the MRI suite (MRI Room Alert Plus).
  • Gain remote video access to see what is causing the alert (MRI Room Alert Plus).
  • And many more features.

*Disclaimer, all user-defined phone numbers that are alerted by the MRI Room Alert should only be to qualified MRI safety-trained individuals that fit the ACR’s description of either Level 1 or Level 2 MR personnel. 

About Sound Imaging

Sound Imaging, Inc., is a leading designer and manufacturer of MRI products. Since its founding in 1996, the San Diego-based company has engineered a wide variety of imaging products that create a more comfortable patient experience.  Sound Imaging provides a low-price guarantee on every item we sell.