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Beth Frost-Johnson, Sr. VP of Marketing
Merge Healthcare
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Rich Linden, President & CEO
Merge Healthcare
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Attention: Business/Financial Editors:
MERGE EMED TO SHOWCASE ADVANCED SUPPORT FOR DIGITAL ORTHOPAEDIC PLANNING AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS® (AAOS)
- Merge eMed to introduce new digital solutions for surgeons and technologists designed to provide advanced support for orthopaedic planning and diagnosis
- Solutions designed to address clinical need for highly flexible workflow that can be customized for different planning methodologies
- Solutions to include Cedara OrthoWorks Planner™, Cedara OrthoWorks Web Planner™, Cedara OrthoWorks Spine Analyzer™ and the award winning Cedara OrthoWorks Care Manager™
- Offering to provide complimentary support to Merge eMed’s popular imaging solutions eFilm Workstation, FUSION PACS and FUSION Matrix PACS.
Milwaukee, WI, March 16, 2006 – Merge eMed, a Merge Healthcare company (NASDAQ: MRGE; TSX: MRG) and a leader in healthcare software and services, today announced plans to showcase advanced support for digital orthopaedic planning at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).
Included in the portfolio of solutions will be a wide array of solutions designed to allow 2D and 3D planning over the web, implant selection, templating, as well as tools for tracking and analyzing implant usage, pain thresholds, recovery rates, outcome statistics. Among the solutions demonstrated will be OrthoWorks Planner, OrthoWorks Web Planner, OrthoWorks Spine Analyzer and OrthoWorks Care Manager.
OrthoWorks Planner includes highly customizable workflow that can be adjusted to directly mimic the way that surgeons plan using grease pencils and film. Exceeding wizard level customizations, Planner can be configured to allow different surgeons on the same network to plan in completely different ways. To address different approaches in areas such as leg length discrepancy, image layout, button configurations and planning methodologies can be easily altered to accommodate pelvic or full leg standing x-ray methodologies.
“OrthoWorks represents an evolution to our orthopaedic offering,” said David Noshay, President of Merge eMed. “From dedicated functionality for spine analysis to integrated capabilities for implant performance tracking, OrthoWorks provides comprehensive support for surgeons working in joint arthroplasty, trauma, and deformity corrections.”
Cedara OrthoWorks joins Merge eMed’s other popular medical imaging solutions eFilm Workstation, FUSION PACS and FUSION Matrix PACS.
Merge eMed will debut this new digital technology during AAOS 2006 from March 22-24, at booth 2455 in the South Hall of McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois.
Merge eMed is a Merge Healthcare company focused on accelerating productivity for radiology departments and specialty practices, imaging centers and hospitals. By combining sophisticated RIS, PACS, advanced visualization and clinical imaging applications, Merge eMed delivers integrated end-to-end software solutions and professional services that are transforming the way our customers interact with referring physicians, manage their workflow, position their businesses in their markets and deliver imaging and information services to their customers. For additional information, visit our website at www.merge-emed.com.
Merge Healthcare is a market leader in the development and delivery of medical imaging and information management software and services. With over twenty years of leadership in the medical imaging and healthcare information technology markets, Merge Healthcare provides innovative solutions for both OEM and the end-user healthcare markets. We custom engineer clinical and imaging applications and development tools that are on the forefront of medicine and its use of medical imaging for OEM and international customers. We develop innovative medical imaging software solutions that support end-to-end business and clinical workflow for radiology department and specialty practices, imaging centers and hospitals. Our innovative software solutions use leading-edge imaging software technologies that accelerate market delivery for our OEM customers, while our end-user solutions improve our customers' productivity and enhance the quality of patient care they provide. For additional information, visit our website at www.merge.com.
"American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons" is a registered trademark of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
All other trademarks appearing in this release are the property of Cedara Software Corp. and/or Merge Healthcare.
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Attn: Beth Frost-Johnson
Merge Healthcare
6737 West Washington St.
Suite 2250
Milwaukee, WI 53214
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