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News Release<br />
Media Contact:<br />
Lesley Weisenbacher<br />
Vice President, Marketing<br />
312.540.6623 | lesley.weisenbacher@merge.com<br />
MERGE’S iCONNECT® ENTERPRISE CLINICAL PLATFORM AVAILABLE THROUGH EMC SELECT<br />
PROGRAM<br />
<strong>Merge</strong> solutions provide customers with an integrated suite to share diagnostic content and<br />
results across the enterprise<br />
Chicago, IL (Nov. 27, 2012) <strong>Merge</strong> <strong>Healthcare</strong> Incorporated (NASDAQ: MRGE), a leading<br />
provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today<br />
announced that its iConnect® Enterprise Clinical platform is now available through EMC®<br />
Select, a program which helps customers easily acquire components that comprise an<br />
information infrastructure. The entire iConnect Enterprise Clinical Platform including iConnect®<br />
Access*, iConnect® Share and iConnect® Enterprise Archive will be offered through the Select<br />
program.<br />
“EMC will now be able to offer healthcare customers an integrated suite of solutions to share<br />
diagnostic content and results,” said Scott Filion, General Manager of EMC’s <strong>Healthcare</strong> vertical.<br />
“By leveraging a standards-‐based approach and using web-‐based technologies, iConnect<br />
enables health information exchange to lower costs and enhance patient care.”<br />
“Final Meaningful Use Stage 2 rules include image-‐enabling the EHR, so customers are looking<br />
for simple ways to accomplish <strong>this</strong>,” added Jeff Surges, CEO, <strong>Merge</strong> <strong>Healthcare</strong>. “We are excited<br />
to be partnering with one of the best sales teams and technology leaders to offer our solutions.<br />
And we believe that our zero-‐download viewer and Internet-‐based gateway for image sharing<br />
across the enterprise represent a unique offering previously unavailable to EMC customers.”<br />
The iConnect® Enterprise Clinical platform, <strong>Merge</strong>’s comprehensive offering for viewing,<br />
sharing and archiving any type of image, anywhere, any time, is comprised of iConnect Access*,<br />
a zero-‐download DICOM image and XDS server; iConnect Enterprise Archive, a vendor neutral<br />
archive that acts as the backbone of an enterprise imaging strategy; and iConnect Share, a<br />
gateway for image sharing. With current trends in patient safety and healthcare reform as well<br />
as competition for referring physicians, the need for image sharing across the enterprise is<br />
more critical than ever.<br />
A recent InMedica study reported iConnect Enterprise Archive as the world’s #1 vendor-‐neutral<br />
archive. As the industry’s first true standalone vendor-‐neutral archive, it has been successfully<br />
integrated with over seventy-‐five PACS vendors and specialty workstations at over 350 sites<br />
across the United States. In over half of the implementations, <strong>Merge</strong>’s customers have<br />
integrated third-‐party PACS systems with iConnect Enterprise Archive.
*iConnect Access is not FDA-‐cleared for diagnostic use on mobile devices.<br />
About <strong>Merge</strong> <strong>Healthcare</strong><br />
<strong>Merge</strong> is a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform<br />
healthcare. <strong>Merge</strong>’s enterprise and cloud-‐based solutions for image intensive specialties provide access<br />
to any image, anywhere, any time. <strong>Merge</strong> also provides health stations, clinical trials software and other<br />
health data and analytics solutions that engage consumers in their personal health. With solutions that<br />
are used by providers and consumers and include more than 20 years of innovation, <strong>Merge</strong> is helping to<br />
reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare worldwide. For more information, visit merge.com.<br />
Cautionary Notice Regarding Forward-‐Looking Statements<br />
The matters discussed in <strong>this</strong> news <strong>release</strong> may include forward-‐looking statements, which could involve a number<br />
of risks and uncertainties. When used in <strong>this</strong> <strong>press</strong> <strong>release</strong>, the words “will,” “believes,” “intends,” “anticipates,”<br />
“expects” and similar ex<strong>press</strong>ions are intended to identify forward-‐looking statements. Actual results could differ<br />
materially from those ex<strong>press</strong>ed in, or implied by, such forward-‐looking statements. Except as ex<strong>press</strong>ly required<br />
by the federal securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to update such factors or to publicly<br />
announce the results of any of the forward-‐looking statements.<br />
EMC is a registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries.<br />
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