Merge January 2024 newsletter: A year of innovation, adoption, and focus starts now

Happy New Year!

We hope you all had a wonderful, relaxing holiday break and that your 2024 is off to a strong start. We’re already hard at work kicking off our plans for the year to continue delivering and building on the exceptional user experiences you’ve all come to expect from Merge. For us, 2024 is all about three major focus areas: innovation, adoption, and focus.

• Innovation: We’re continuing to refine the solutions that comprise our Merge Imaging Suite portfolio, and that means providing a choice of deployment that’s tailored to your wants and needs. There is no one-size-fits-all approach; our mission is to continue bringing you cloud-enabled and cloud-native solutions at a rate and pace that accommodates wherever you are on your enterprise cloud journey.
• Adoption: We’re investing in new ways that make it easier for you to utilize our solutions, through a combination of trainings, user group meetings, and Tuesdays with Merge webinars (more on that below) we have planned for the year.
• Focus: And finally, making sure the spotlight is squarely on you – hearing from you directly on what’s working, what isn’t, and what you’d like and need to see from our solutions to help you further along your enterprise cloud journey. This means not just the solutions themselves, but what our team is delivering to you. The goal of our support teams is simple: deliver an exceptional customer experience through efficient and effective service.

On that note, I’m happy to announce the return of the Merge User Meeting for 2024! This year we’re hosting it at our brand-new headquarters in Hartland, Wisconsin, for a more intimate experience that will allow us, and you, to more directly dial into your imaging needs. Mark your calendars for September 15-17 and save your spot today!

Looking forward to another exciting, innovative, and successful year with all of you. Here’s to a strong 2024 together!

Save your spot for the Merge User Meeting

Tuesdays with Merge

A new year means new Tuesdays with Merge. Our free webinar training series on getting the most out of your Merge solutions is back for 2024, with sessions on Merge PACS, Merge Unity, interoperability, Merge RIS/MDM/dashboards, Merge Cardio, and Merge Hemo all scheduled from February through April. Check out the calendar to find the training course best suited to your needs over the coming months.

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New research on the evolution of cloud in imaging

In case you missed it, last year we commissioned an independent research survey of 100 U.S. medical imaging practitioners about their enterprise cloud journey – specifically their level of enterprise cloud adoption, investment prioritization, and integration requirements.

Are you one of the 77% that relies on cloud for storing and accessing medical information? Or the 98% who said their organization is currently facing tech challenges? Or how about the 58% who say they need faster, easier access to patient data to significantly improve their workflows – does that sound like you?

Check out our full report for exclusive findings on how our industry is faring with cloud, the challenges blocking better utilization, and the road of opportunities that continues to lie ahead.

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Customer Spotlight: SOIN and Costa Rica

SOIN had a mission: modernize and consolidate the imaging environments of 50 hospitals across Costa Rica, bringing them all into a single, centralized Enterprise Archive, PACS, RIS, and EMR. The problem? The hospitals were siloed from each other, working off different PACS, storing patient information and imaging data in often manual, bespoke formats – including on paper. The solution: Merge VNA and Merge Universal Viewer.

Get a look inside the five-year plan to revolutionize hospital care in Costa Rica, and how SOIN got it done with an enterprise imaging foundation from Merge.

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