The story at a glance
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The latest release of Merge PACS 9.4 marks a step forward for radiology departments and healthcare facilities seeking greater efficiency and usability.
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Healthcare providers can expect to take advantage of an upgraded on-premise or cloud-based PACS in their workstations with enhanced diagnostic workflows, new collaboration functionality, refreshed and more efficient worklists, heightened cybersecurity features – and much more.
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Whether you’re a current Merge customer or evaluating your next enterprise-wide on-premise or cloud-based PACS platform, here’s why this upgrade deserves your attention.
Clinical Benefits
Enhanced diagnostic workflow
The latest version of Merge PACS 9.4 introduces numerous features that improve the clinical experience — reading and interpreting studies from all modalities, integrated with leading EMR systems.
Improved mammography reading
Synchronized Priors Scrolling for mammography, allowing radiologists to scroll through current and prior images simultaneously. This streamlines comparative analysis, especially for bilateral and unilateral studies, saving significant review time for complex cases. These improvements directly address user feedback from leading radiology groups for faster and more intuitive diagnostic reading. This feature allows significant time savings and improvements in user interaction.
Teaching and collaboration
Academic workflows are now supported with public, searchable study tags and batch processing for teaching files. Faculty and trainees can build centralized teaching libraries, share cases, and manage study status updates more efficiently, opening new opportunities for collaboration and training.
Operational benefits
Workflow efficiency
The Real Time Worklist has been modernized, offering a cohesive look and feel that aligns with other medical imaging solutions, and as mentioned, helps highlight and identify studies more clearly.
Dynamic Refresh means new study information appears instantly on the workstation — no need to close and reopen studies — eliminating workflow disruptions and saving valuable time for busy teams. These enhancements have received enthusiastic feedback from early evaluators, who note the improved speed and reduced manual effort.
Seamless user management
UAI integration allows users to launch Merge PACS from Merge Workflow Orchestrator (MWO) the cloud-based orchestration solution that is part of Merge Imaging suite. This is without manual user creation, cutting administrative setup time by 50%. This means Merge PACS administrators can focus on higher-value tasks, while users enjoy a more frictionless experience from day one.
Technical benefits
Cloud-ready architecture
Merge PACS 9.4 delivers high availability for on-premise and cloud deployments, and can be launched from Merge Workflow Orchestrator, the cloud-native application module in Merge Imaging Suite. The cloud-based PACS platform supports “mixed mode” operations, enabling seamless integration between on-prem and cloud environments.
Security and compliance
Cybersecurity has been strengthened with comprehensive remediation and updated DICOM toolkit integration. Healthcare providers can trust that their data and workflows are protected, meeting the highest IT security and compliance standards for medical devices.
Why invest (or upgrade)?
Merge PACS 9.4 isn’t just an incremental update — it’s a leap forward in clinical usability, operational efficiency, and technical robustness. With features designed in direct response to client feedback, and a proven track record of successful early adoption, this release builds on past releases to empower radiology teams to work smarter, faster, and more securely.
Ready to experience the difference? Contact us to learn more about investing in a move to Merge PACS 9.4 and begin taking advantage of improved imaging workflows.
