Merge Healthcare Solutions

Merge has leveraged its roots in diagnostic imaging and invested substantially in R&D to build a service-based platform for diagnostic information exchange. The company's Cedara WebAccess™ solution delivers critical diagnostic results throughout the continuum of care in a "zero client" configuration over the web, on any device.


Customers for this software product include EMR/EHR vendors or IT integrators who enjoy letting Merge handle the technical intricacies of DICOM/HL7/XDS standards.

"WebAccess is a web application that does all of its image processing and communication on the back end, which makes it amenable to any number of implementation scenarios including hosted, mobile phone implementations, anything that is browser based; and we're looking forward to trying it out on Apple's new [iPad] tablet," Skokovic said.

The way it works is that image rendering, DICOM interfacing, and federation of multiple sources all take place on the server side. To see reports and images, the user needs only an Internet connection and a browser, no plug-ins, hence the term "zero client."

Merge will showcase Cedara WebAccess at HIMSS10 this week along with the rest of its portfolio.

A particular attraction for customers is Merge's philosophy of working with existing systems to bring customers along in advancing their health information technology.

"Where we at Merge feel we make a big difference compared to other vendors is we can go in and say 'Leave everything as is.' We will just connect it and enable the access as a portal with their existing portal across the enterprise and provide them a better integrated workflow for the system that they have," Skokovic said. "So from that perspective we believe that there is enough in maturity and experience with standards-based interoperability to make this happen without causing any pain, but rather removing a layer of pain away from health care enterprises and allowing them focus on patient care."

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