Merge Medical Imaging Solutions

Merge Medical Imaging Solutions, offered by Merative, provides a portfolio of imaging software covering radiology, cardiology, and enterprise imaging. The platform is used in six of the top ten health systems in the United States, with multiple products ranked in the KLAS Top 3, including Merge Hemo, which has held the #1 ranking for cardiology hemodynamics for 14 consecutive years.

The solutions are designed for imaging clinicians and healthcare organizations seeking to reduce workflow complexity, consolidate imaging data, and support digital transformation across their enterprise. Merge addresses use cases ranging from single-specialty radiology reading to large-scale enterprise archive migrations involving hundreds of terabytes of patient data.

Core Solution Areas

• Imaging Suite: An integrated set of solutions designed for imaging clinicians, focused on providing an intuitive and frictionless workflow experience across imaging disciplines.
• Radiology: Supports reading across multiple specialties from a single worklist, with access to preferred applications and AI solutions and insights.
• Cardiology: Includes Merge Hemo and Merge Cardio, which support clinical and data management workflows for cardiology service lines, with tools for streamlining and scaling operations.
• Enterprise Imaging: Provides a cloud-based vendor neutral archive (VNA) and enterprise viewer, enabling review of complete patient imaging records, with added orchestration capabilities.
• Partner Innovations: An ecosystem of third-party partners available to support enterprise imaging transformation initiatives.
• DICOM Toolkit: Supports developers in building solutions using current imaging standards and healthcare applications.

Documented Customer Use Cases

• Teleradiology and burnout reduction: Northern Light Medical Management used Merge technology to increase radiologist capacity and support more stable work-life balance through teleradiology.
• Enterprise imaging ecosystem: MultiCare Health System is building an enterprise imaging foundation to support its own operations as well as smaller clinics and rural hospitals across the Pacific Northwest.
• Multi-hospital data integration: Carle Health used a centralized VNA and universal viewer to integrate imaging data migrations from eight hospitals, totaling nearly 900 terabytes of patient data.
• Patient portal image enablement: Presbyterian Healthcare used Merge to image-enable its patient portal, increasing patient engagement and meeting regulatory requirements.
• Hospital consolidation: SOIN in Costa Rica used Merge's enterprise imaging foundation to consolidate disparate hospital imaging systems.
• Holistic imaging strategy: Blanchard Valley Health System built a comprehensive imaging strategy with Merge, focusing on clinical workflow optimization and user adoption.

Platform Characteristics

• Supports AI tool access and integration within radiology workflows.
• Cloud-based VNA supports centralized storage and retrieval of imaging records across an enterprise.
• Universal viewer enables review of complete patient imaging histories across facilities.
• Designed to support digital transformation initiatives at health systems of varying sizes, including large academic medical centers and smaller regional providers.

Merge products are deployed across a range of health system sizes and geographies, with documented implementations in the United States, Costa Rica, and the Pacific Northwest region. The platform supports integration with partner ecosystems and is built on DICOM standards, making it applicable to organizations developing or extending their own imaging applications.