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NEWS RELEASE:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
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MERGE HEALTHCARE UNVEILS NEW FUSION RIS/PACS MX™,
A NEXT-GENERATION IMAGING INFORMATICS SOLUTION
System brings positive ROI for imaging businesses
and uniquely optimized workspace for radiologists
Milwaukee, WI, April 19, 2007 -- Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ: MRGE; TSX: MRG), a leading provider of medical imaging software and services, today announced the release of Fusion RIS/PACS MX™, an imaging informatics solution that moves beyond the simple interfacing of RIS and PACS applications designed for imaging centers, hospitals, multi-facility physician practices and specialty clinics. Fusion RIS/PACS MX helps these organizations achieve new efficiencies by blending together the advantages of a RIS (radiology information system) and a PACS (picture archiving and communication system) into a single business and clinical application with a uniquely optimized radiologist workspace environment.
Fusion RIS/PACS MX delivers a single workflow application which is relevant to the entire spectrum of clinical and business needs for medical imaging. With exam-driven workflow and a single source of access to all patient information, duplicative and/or missing data is greatly reduced. Customizable, intuitive worklists and embedded tools, such as document management, enhance every user’s productivity and help imaging businesses reduce report turnaround times.
The solution is based upon a unique radiologist workspace that gives single-desktop access to all information required for reading and reporting on an exam via the Patient Master Jacket. Not only are all the advanced tools readily available that are required for today’s reading, but Fusion RIS/PACS MX also gives radiologists easy access to RIS-based data. Point and click linkage to additional workflow tools, such as relevant priors, embedded dictation, interrupt sessions and instant messaging, give radiologists a truly comprehensive "command center."
"This is a big step forward for RIS/PACS and Merge specifically, and it improves on their already well-designed product. In our fast-paced work environment, we must ensure that our radiologists practice in the best and most efficient manner. We look forward to more fully leveraging Fusion RIS/PACS MX to improve workflow and capabilities not only for radiologists, but also for staff across our entire organization," says Steven Mendelsohn, MD, medical director of Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology, which operates seven New York-based imaging centers.
"Merge Healthcare’s comprehensive exam-driven workflow and customizable worklist management ensure that people across the organization, from scheduling through billing, can yield new efficiencies," says Matt Dewey, Zwanger-Pesiri’s Chief Information Officer. "Specially designed tools help move each case from order to report to reimbursement with quality, speed and efficiency. It’s been very rewarding to work as a development partner with Merge in helping to create Fusion RIS/PACS MX as a critical tool for imaging businesses in competitive environments."
According to Kenneth Rardin, Merge Healthcare CEO, many of Merge Healthcare’s existing customers have performed ROI analysis and have shown tangible improvements such as:
- turnaround times reduced from days to minutes
- addition of new imaging centers while limiting volume for new staff hires
- increased exam volumes within the same cost structure
- condensed space requirements from distributed workloads
"Merge Healthcare has maximized its ability to bring together the ‘best of the best’ from our long-standing, proven RIS, PACS and RIS/PACS technologies,” says Rardin. “Fusion RIS/PACS MX is relevant to the growth and operations of an organization because, as a business and clinical workflow solution, it is designed for the explicit purpose of helping to improve performance today and in the future."
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Merge Healthcare is a developer of medical imaging and clinical software applications and developmental tools that are on the forefront of medicine. We develop medical imaging software solutions that support end-to-end business and clinical workflow for radiology department and specialty practices, imaging centers and hospitals. Our software technologies accelerate market delivery for our OEM customers, while our end-user solutions improve our customers’ productivity and enhance the quality of the patient experience. For additional information, visit our website at www.merge.com.
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Attn: Beth Frost-Johnson
Merge Healthcare
6737 West Washington St.
Suite 2250
Milwaukee, WI 53214
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