Huntington Memorial Hospital, a 625-bed, not-for-profit community-focused regional medical center, has chosen Merge Healthcare's Merge PACS and the entire iConnect Enterprise Clinical solution.
Huntington will integrate the Merge's solutions to image-enable its hospital inpatient EHR as well as community health information exchange, Huntington Health eConnect.
Merge PACS features a modular design which allows for easy integration with a various third-party systems, while the iConnect platform including iConnect Access, iConnect Share and iConnect Enterprise Archive collects, archives, shares and exchange any type of image, anywhere, any time.
Huntington Hospital physician and interoperability services executive director Rebecca Armato said the company's commitment is to improve the health of the community.
"Our mission Right Care, Right Place, Right Time requires getting the right information in the right hands and on the right device including patient images," Armato added.
"Merge's iConnect Enterprise Clinical Platform and Merge PACS solutions will act as the foundation for viewing images and will have a positive impact on patient care.
"In addition, our enterprise-wide approach will ensure a seamless workflow and immediate access via a single viewer to all prior exams for our partners, The Hill Medical Corporation, where nineteen radiologists provide comprehensive outpatient radiology services in three state-of-the-art imaging centers."
