Market Study Confirms Merge as #1 Vendor-Neutral Archive in the World
August 29 2013 - 7:00AM
Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of
clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare,
announced today that it was named the leading provider for
vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solutions in both the world and in the
Americas by IHS.
Merge's iConnect® Enterprise Archive accounted for 22.7% of all
studies stored in a VNA in the world. Further, Merge was the market
leader in the Americas with 32.6% of all studies archived in 2012.
In total, Merge clients have stored over 37 million studies which
equates to over 15 billion images.
IHS predicts that the market for VNA solutions will grow from
162.3 million studies in 2012 to 366.3 million studies by 2016, a
26.4% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR).
As the industry's first true standalone vendor-neutral archive,
iConnect Enterprise Archive has been successfully integrated with
over seventy third-party vendor PACS and archives at more than 350
sites. In the large majority of iConnect Enterprise Archive
implementations, Merge's customers have integrated third-party PACS
systems with iConnect Enterprise Archive.
"We are very proud to again be the global leader in VNA
solutions. This recognition from IHS, combined with the recent
Product Leadership Award that we received from Frost &
Sullivan, confirms that our solutions are the mostly widely-used
and the best in the market," said Justin Dearborn, CEO of Merge.
"These two awards validate our credibility as a leader and our
forward-thinking approach to healthcare."
iConnect Enterprise Archive consolidates, standardizes and
archives images and data from disparate picture archiving systems,
specialties and sites, giving clinicians a consolidated view of all
diagnostic images. And, being vendor agnostic, it also provides the
flexibility to add or replace storage systems as needed due to
growth or outdated solutions.
iConnect Enterprise Archive is part of Merge's iConnect
Enterprise Clinical Platform, the industry's only comprehensive
solution for collecting, archiving, viewing, sharing and exchanging
any type of image, anywhere, any time. It includes iConnect
Access*, a zero-download DICOM image and XDS server, iConnect
Share, a gateway for image sharing across the enterprise and
iConnect Enterprise Archive, a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) to
create an enterprise imaging strategy. It works with existing
applications, leveraging widely-used web and healthcare technology
standards, to provide a vendor neutral interoperable environment.
The iConnect platform also includes the Merge Honeycomb™ framework
for sharing and archiving images in the cloud, and finally,
iConnect Network, a national network for electronic image
exchange.
*iConnect Access is not FDA-cleared for diagnostic use on mobile
devices.
IHS is pleased to grant Merge permission on a one-time,
non-exclusive basis, to reference IHS and its data in the form and
content attached hereto solely for the purpose a press release, and
subject to the attribution language attached. If use of the
attached form and content varies at all, IHS requires pre-approval
of the final use, and IHS reserves the right to revoke our consent
if the approved content differs in content or medium at any time.
Any other content or format in which Merge proposes to use IHS data
or otherwise reference IHS requires separate permission from
IHS
About Merge Healthcare
Merge is a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations
that seek to transform healthcare. Merge's enterprise and
cloud-based solutions for image intensive specialties provide
access to any image, anywhere, any time. Merge also provides health
stations, clinical trials software and other health data and
analytics solutions that engage consumers in their personal health.
With solutions that are used by providers and consumers and include
more than 25 years of innovation, Merge is helping to reduce costs
and improve the quality of healthcare worldwide. For more
information, visit merge.com.
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CONTACT: Media Contact:
Jennifer Jawor
Director, Corporate Marketing
312.565.6825
jennifer.jawor@merge.com
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