What you need to know
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Healthcare providers aren’t necessarily looking for cloud, but they are looking for simplicity and reliability - and cloud can help facilitate both outcomes.
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Merge Imaging Suite is an enterprise imaging platform built on a cloud-native foundation, designed to help healthcare organizations migrate imaging workloads to the cloud and transition into a hybrid-cloud model.
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Merge enterprise imaging solutions deliver reliable imaging through smarter worklists and balanced caseloads; reduced complexity through high-trust cybersecurity; and better care with a robust partners ecosystem.
“What do you think about the cloud?” “What are you hearing about healthcare providers and the cloud?” “What’s happening with cloud and healthcare?”
I often get asked some variation of these questions, and I understand why: Cloud, like AI, is just inescapably top of mind for everyone in healthcare. But my answer to “what do I think about cloud” always circles back to: It’s not about the cloud. It’s about reliability and simplicity.
The healthcare providers I talk to aren’t thinking about the cloud as their ultimate goal. Their goal is reliable imaging, less complexity, and better care. They want something that will help with the rising costs that are squeezing their operating margins, and the complexity of their enterprise imaging projects that are growing too large and unwieldy. They want something that will reduce these technical burdens and free their clinical teams to focus on what they do best: delivering quality patient care.
That is the goal, and cloud is what helps deliver providers to that goal. That’s why we have invested so much into Merge Imaging Suite, our enterprise imaging platform built on a cloud-native foundation and designed to help healthcare organizations transition toward a hybrid-cloud environment, where they can begin offloading imaging workloads into the cloud. This approach allows providers to take advantage of a secure, highly reliable imaging infrastructure that makes it easier for care teams to access images anywhere, at any time, from any part of the enterprise. Merge Imaging Suite delivers the cloud-based performance and stability that modern health systems need to achieve reliable imaging for their clinical teams, less complexity for their IT teams, and better care for their patients.
1. Less complexity with high-trust imaging data security in the cloud
Cybersecurity remains a massive concern for the healthcare enterprise. Many hospitals still rely on aging service machines that have gone without updates for years. These outdated systems create significant vulnerabilities and expose patient data to unnecessary risks.
Transitioning to a vendor neutral archive (VNA) and universal viewer in the cloud allows us to manage those workloads for you. This approach maintains a rigorous cybersecurity posture, backed by industrial-grade security protocols – SOC2 Type II compliance, Censinet certification, and the reliability that comes with a hybrid-cloud environment – ensuring high trust in availability and a rigorous adherence to HIPAA standards.
2. Reliable imaging through smarter worklists and balanced caseloads
Clinical teams face their own set of pressing challenges. Radiologists deal with skyrocketing study volumes while managing clinical staffing shortages. Providers ask these professionals to process massive amounts of patient imaging data in shorter amounts of time. This situation creates unsustainable workloads and accelerates physician burnout.
Merge Workflow Orchestrator directly addresses this problem with an AI-driven caseload engine that automatically and intelligently routes cases to doctors based on their specialty, existing caseloads, and best fit to the patient’s case. Workflow orchestration creates more evenly balanced workloads between physicians, helping to reduce friction and chances of burnout, while also still maximizing patient care by ensuring their studies are being read by the right doctors at the right time.
3. Better care thanks to a robust ecosystem of medical imaging partners
Creating reliable and less complex enterprise imaging is not a challenge that can be solved by any one company. It takes a village – and with Merge that means a wide, robust, collaborative ecosystem of partners.
Merge actively extends its partner network to continually enhance and innovate our imaging solutions. We work with imaging solutions vendors, channel partners, AI developers, and medical device manufacturers to integrate best-of-breed capabilities – from advanced visualization tools to select, high-quality AI algorithms – directly into your deployment. We take the complexity out of working with multiple vendors, placing it all behind a seamless SaaS offering. No more juggling different vendors for different use cases; our ecosystem brings all of capabilities cleanly together onto one platform and one user experience for the entire enterprise.
Elevate your enterprise imaging strategy to the cloud
Outdated systems restrict your ability to scale operations and protect sensitive patient data. Your organization needs a comprehensive imaging platform that can unify clinical workflows and secure your infrastructure. Merge provides the cloud-based enterprise imaging necessary to help providers move into a hybrid environment – at their pace, under their control – so that they can ultimately streamline clinical workflows, unify data access, reduce IT complexity, and optimize care delivery.
Ready to see for yourself how a transition to the cloud can finally help you achieve your simplicity and reliability goals? Let us know how to reach you – we’d love to start the conversation with a live demo of how Merge Imaging Suite is ready to transform your workflows and build a future-ready enterprise imaging ecosystem for your clinicians, IT teams, and patients.
