MILWAUKEE, April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Merge eMed, a Merge Healthcare company (Nasdaq: MRGE; TSX: MRG) and a leading medical imaging software and services company, today announced that it will showcase Cedara I-ReadMammo(TM) digital mammography workstation software and Cedara B-CAD, a solution designed to assist radiologists in the analysis of breast lesions using ultrasound images, at ACR's National Conference on Breast Cancer, April 29 - 30, in San Diego, CA.
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Cedara I-ReadMammo is a multi modality, vendor-neutral mammography workstation software solution, designed to help organizations streamline breast imaging workflow and reduce costs in adopting digital mammography. Another innovative solution that will be featured is Cedara B-CAD, which is uniquely positioned to reduce the quantity of time required by a radiologist to analyze and report the findings of breast ultrasound images. This timesaving application provides tools for automatic image analysis, segmentation, and classification.
"The value proposition for our customers is a short ROI, with even lower volume sites having a payback within one year," said Beth Frost-Johnson, Merge Healthcare Senior Vice-President, Marketing. "This is another example of ways in which Merge eMed works as a business partner with its customers, creating solutions that add to the financial and clinical health of their businesses. We are pleased to create and own our RIS/PACS and Clinical Applications that deliver solid ROI's for our customers."
Cedara I-ReadMammo and B-CAD will be shown in the Merge eMed booth, #512. For additional information, visit Merge eMed's special mammography site at http://www.ireadmammo.com/, or to learn more about Merge eMed's RIS, PACS, RIS/PACS and other clinical applications, go to http://www.merge-emed.com/.
Merge Healthcare is a market leader in the development and delivery of medical imaging and information management software and services. 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 http://www.merge.com/.
Merge eMed, a Merge Healthcare company, is 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 http://www.merge-emed.com/.
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