Merge is #1 vendor-neutral archive in the world

CHICAGO, USA: Merge Healthcare Inc., a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, 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 percent of all studies stored in a VNA in the world. Further, Merge was the market leader in the Americas with 32.6 percent 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 percent 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being vendor agnostic, it also provides the flexibility to add or replace storage systems as needed due to growth or outdated solutions.