Medtronic is a global leader in medical technology, services, and solutions. We collaborate with others to take on healthcare's greatest challenges. Six powerful words have inspired us to do the extraordinary for 60 years and counting: Alleviate pain. Restore health. Extend life. Our approach to innovation: With a passion to solve unmet needs, we redefine what’s possible in healthcare technology. Life-transforming technology We fuse technology, a deep understanding of the body, and leading medical science to create never-before-seen solutions. Whether it’s developing less-invasive surgical approaches to minimize a patient's downtime or creating the smallest pacemaker, our potential to transform lives knows no limits. Insight-driven care We take insights gleaned from data to make substantial improvements in care, tailoring therapies in real time. And our work on the forefront of technology pushes care forward, such as reimagining robotic-assisted surgery to bring advanced precision and predictability to more people. Experiences that put people first Empathy inspires our technologies that smartly adapt to a patient’s lifestyle and don’t get in the way of the things they love to do. We’re working to create adaptive technologies to alleviate patients’ concerns and put control in their hands. Better outcomes for our world There is no greater measure of our efforts than the outcomes we enable. For everyone we serve. From better clinical and economic outcomes to societal ones. It motivates us to introduce technologies to underserved regions, dismantle barriers to equity in our communities, and deeply understand the patients and health systems we serve.

Servicio Madrileño de Salud (SERMAS) is the public health provider of the region of Madrid. SERMAS belongs to the Spanish National Health System and provides services to more than 6 million citizens through 38 hospitals and 424 primary care centres. SERMAS is an international reference for high-specialized medicine; it is equipped with state-of-the art stage technologies and characterized by high-qualified health professionals distributed in three domains: primary care, hospital care and emergency care through SUMMA 112. SERMAS has one of the best public primary care systems in good coordination with hospital care and social services in order to provide integrated care and achieve real impact on patients and families. In order to improve health research management and coordination, SERMAS works with 13 Research Foundations that support from the economic and administrative point of view research and innovation that originates at university hospitals, primary care, the emergency medical service and public health covering all areas of specialties and including communication and information technologic departments. These public research foundations focus on innovation and translational research, seeking for real outcomes in healthcare. SERMAS is committed to ensure the continuous improvement of quality.

UPM is a leader in healthcare technologies, with an outstanding participation in international research and innovation projects, alliances with leading institutions in medical research and a close relationship with hospitals R&D centers. The UPM Health Tech community is the flagship initiative of UPM, bringing together all Education, Research and Innovation capabilities in Health Care Technologies (Medical Device, Biotech and Digital Health). UPM HealthTech provides a stable interdisciplinary environment grouping UPM research groups/centers with high expertise and qualified infrastructure to address major challenges in Health Care, and to promote the start-up of new ventures issued by UPM community and regional/national/European Health Technology ecosystem, and to offer high quality and experienced educational programmes