Merge Healthcare Enhances Mammography Review Solution

Milwaukee, WI, March 6, 2009 – Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ: MRGE), a leading medical imaging solutions provider, today announced the latest update to its Cedara I-ReadMammo vendor solution for digital breast imaging review. Version 6.5 is built on over 10 years of continuous development, making it one of the longest running, non-proprietary mammography review software in the industry. Since mammography is a high volume area of radiology subject to its own set of regulations, the software for reviewing these images must be highly specialized. Experience in meeting these regulations, while also allowing for efficient review, is critical.

Merge Healthcare’s Cedara I-ReadMammo 6.5 supports 10 bit medical monitors, which display up to 1,024 simultaneous levels of gray versus the 256 offered by 8-bit monitors. Merge partnered with Barco, a global display and visualization company, for quality control in the development. “I’m very pleased to see the full support for 10-bit precision image display added in version 6.5 of Cedara I-ReadMammo,” said Albert Xthona, Product Manager for Digital Mammography at Barco. “This image enhancement contributes to better mammography workflow, because the actual image interpretation goes faster.”

source= Merge Healthcare