Merge Healthcare Signs Agreement with Radiology Detector Distributor in China

Merge Healthcare (Milwaukee, WI, USA), a medical imaging solutions provider, reported that its Merge China business unit has signed a distribution agreement with Pangaea Technology, Ltd. (Hong Kong SAR, China), a distributor of charged couple device (CCD) detectors, which are an economic alternative to digital detectors, for digital radiography (DR) systems in the Greater China area. Pangaea will provide the Chinese DR market with a bundled system consisting of Merge CIE (Cedara Image Enhancement) and CCD through their eight offices and wide distribution channels in China.

"After the healthcare reform plan was announced in China early this year, we recognized that there would be large demand for economical DR solutions in the rural healthcare market. Many local modality manufacturers have since switched their product lines to address a cost conscious, big volume market. We believe the CCD sensor and Merge CIE is a solution that will fit into this market perfectly,” explained Richard Fung, CEO and president of Pangaea (HK) Limited, which is the parent company of Pangaea China. "During this preliminary stage of work with Merge China, our customers are quite happy and satisfied with the enhanced images filtered by CIE, the flexibility of the tuning tools, and the timely response through Merge's local technical team. With Merge's extensive knowledge and advanced technologies in the medical imaging domain, we expect to dramatically grow our CCD shipment during 2010, and we are looking at the healthcare industry as our key growth market in the future.”

"Pangaea is a very important distributor in China for our CIE solution,” said Justin Dearborn, Merge CEO. "The quality and cost of the CCD has been well recognized by the market, and Pangaea's wide distribution channel and existing customer base has already shown significant interest in the bundled solution. This is a perfect combination of technologies and marketing channels, and we look forward to bringing more of our technologies to their solution in the future.”

Pangaea, headquartered in Hong Kong, was founded in 1990 as a distribution company offering advanced solutions for telecommunication, healthcare, industrial, and consumer electronics. Pangaea has a broad customer base in China and is currently having eight offices in China offering sales and technical support to customers.

Merge Healthcare develops software solutions that automate healthcare data and diagnostic workflow to create a more comprehensive electronic record of the patient experience.

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