Merge Healthcare (Nasdaq: MRGE) To Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Merge Technologies Incorporated, d.b.a. Merge Healthcare , today announced that it will preside over the ceremonial NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell on Tuesday, October 18th at 9:30 a.m. EDT at the NASDAQ Market Site in New York City. Merge Healthcare President and CEO Richard Linden will ring the market open bell.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030430/MRGELOGO )

Feed Information:

The opening bell is available from 9:20 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. on uplink IA-5 C-band/transponder 14. The downlink frequency is 3980 horizontal; audio: 6.2/6.8. The feed can also be found on Waterfront fiber 1623. If you have any questions, please contact the traffic department at NASDAQ at (646) 441-5220.

Photos:

To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Open, please go to: http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market open of your choice.

Merge Healthcare is a market leader in the development and delivery of medical imaging and information management software and services. With over twenty years of leadership in the medical imaging and healthcare information technology markets, Merge Healthcare provides innovative solutions for both OEM and the end-user healthcare markets. We custom engineer clinical and imaging applications and development tools that are on the forefront of medicine and its use of medical imaging for OEM and international customers. We develop innovative medical imaging software solutions that support end-to- end business and clinical workflow for radiology department and specialty practices, imaging centers and hospitals. 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.

Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030430/MRGELOGOAP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.orgPRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.comMerge Healthcare

CONTACT: Beth Frost-Johnson, Senior VP-Marketing, +1-414-977-4000, orbfrost@merge.com; or Richard Linden, President and CEO, +1-414-977-4000, orrlinden@merge.com, both of Merge Healthcare

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