Enter Your Email Address to Receive a
Copy of MedicExhange Member Demograhpics

Solution wins prestigious Frost and Sullivan 2010 Healthcare Innovation of the Year Award

Merge Healthcare (MRGE 3.90, +0.04, +1.04%) , a leading health IT solutions provider, announced the addition of Inova MedImaging Services Limited, a UK based core lab with expertise in working with large pharmaceutical companies, to its growing list of customers using etrials CIMS(TM) imaging solution. In addition, the CIMS platform from Merge Healthcare was just awarded with the prestigious 2010 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Healthcare Innovation of the Year for use in clinical trials and medical research.

"We are looking forward to implementing etrials CIMS," noted Brian Phelan, Co-Founder and Director at Inova MedImaging Services Limited. "Our group of highly trained experts will utilize the CIMS solution for complete clinical trial image management. We are particularly excited about partnering with Merge, who shares the vision of using technology to drive down costs while improving quality in clinical trials."

Merge Healthcare 's CIMS platform enables the complex pieces of the clinical trials puzzle to be brought together to offer the most sophisticated imaging trial workflow management solution on the market today.

In recognition of the best practices approach to medical imaging workflow solutions, combined with a potential to truly drive the state of the industry forward when compared to other existing technologies, Frost and Sullivan recognized Merge Healthcare and the CIMS solution as the recipient of the 2010 Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Innovation of the Year Award. Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated a breakthrough approach or higher degree of innovation compared to other market participants. Leveraging revolutionary technology, the company leads the way in terms of research, technology, market penetration rates, value to customers, new avenues for products, novel pricing and marketing strategies, and overall advancement of the industry.

"Frost & Sullivan believes that Merge Healthcare 's clinical imaging management solution is a 'game changing technology' as some of the workflow steps previously benchmarked to last for several days have been reduced to minutes," notes Justin Dearborn, President of Merge Healthcare. "These leaps forward are actively fueling the paradigm shift taking place in the clinical trials industry, where the different clinical trial stakeholders; including sponsors, principal investigators, CROs, safety committees, and radiologists, can now more readily overcome the current technological barriers, potentially leapfrog unnecessary intermediaries, and ultimately gain greater access to medical imaging services."

Source: Merge Healthcare