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Web Access Systems Offer Integration of Medical Imaging Standards

By MedImaging International staff writers
Posted on 01 Jul 2010

New Web access solutions provide the latest standards for building image-enabled electronic health records (EHRs) and general health information technology (IT) applications.

Continuing its commitment to interoperability solutions through open standards, Merge Healthcare (Milwaukee, WI, USA), a leading health IT solutions provider, 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 health information exchange (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 Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (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.

"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,” said 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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