Merge Healthcare commences tender offer for all outstanding common stock shares of AMICAS

Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ: MRGE) (“Merge”), a health IT solutions provider, announced today that it has commenced a tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of common stock in AMICAS, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMCS) (“AMICAS”), a leader in image and information management solutions. The tender offer is being commenced as provided in the previously announced definitive merger agreement between Merge and AMICAS dated as of February 28, 2010, under which a subsidiary of Merge (“Merger Sub”) will acquire all of the outstanding shares of AMICAS, Inc. Subject to the terms and conditions of the offer, AMICAS stockholders who validly tender their shares in the tender offer will receive $6.05 for each share of AMICAS common stock tendered and not withdrawn.

The tender offer and withdrawal rights are scheduled to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, at the end of Thursday, April 15, 2010, unless extended. Following the completion of the tender offer, Merge expects to merge its subsidiary into AMICAS, resulting in any shares not purchased in the tender offer being converted into the right to receive the same cash price per share as paid in the tender offer. The tender offer is subject to customary closing conditions, including the specified number of shares of common stock that must be tendered and/or purchased to result in Merger Sub owning one share more than 90% of the Shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis. Merge estimates that this minimum tender condition will be satisfied if at least 60% of the outstanding shares of AMICAS common stock are tendered and not withdrawn in the tender offer.