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Merge Healthcare Launches Technology for Improved Health Information Exchange at e-Health Interoperability Showcase
Continuing its commitment to interoperability solutions through open standards, Merge Healthcare announced new releases of its core interoperability solutions. These applications bring advanced capabilities to vendors interested in developing and integrating the latest medical imaging standards into their health IT products.
Merge Healthcare’s WebAccess™ is a standards-based software portal technology capable of consolidating diagnostic information from multiple disparate sources and delivering it to users through a zero-client web browser. Already in use by providers to “image-enable” EHR and HIE solutions, this latest version provides additional standards-based middleware components to help expand health information exchange outside the traditional clinical or provider “silos”. WebAccess 2.3 now offers Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) capability, which manages the multiple patient identities that typically exist across a healthcare enterprise.
In addition to WebAccess, Merge recently released its latest MergeCOM-3™ Toolkit offering. The latest DICOM release includes structured report templates that facilitate workflow efficiency and mining of critical information, such as radiation dose exposure, that is typically locked away in free text reports. For over 15 years, Merge has been committed to the timely updating of these toolkits to the latest DICOM standard, and, as a result, counts most of the world’s modality manufacturers among its customers.
Merge is currently participating in Canada’s e-Health Interoperability Showcase underway in Vancouver, BC. The Showcase provides a demonstration of market-ready healthcare applications that use common standards to exchange information. Further information on the showcase may be found at the e-Health conference website at www.e-healthconference.com.
“Interoperability among IT applications continues to be a requirement if we are to realize the promise of improved patient care and cost savings through the meaningful use of software in healthcare”, says Justin Dearborn, Merge Healthcare’s CEO. “Our customers depend on our adherence to open standards and thought leadership in the area of interoperability, and these new releases deliver on our commitment.”
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