Merge takeaways from RSNA to guide your 2025

Here at Merge, we’re still thinking about this year’s RSNA – from the booths and presentations we saw that taught us about the evolving landscape of medical imaging, to all the conversations we had with our own users about their specific imaging transformation journeys.

How about you? What’s your outlook for your imaging environment in 2025 – and how are you looking to achieve your goals? Merge wants to help get your new year off on the right foot, so we’ve shared a few resources below that may help you with lessons learned for your own enterprise imaging journeys, ways to bridge the physician shortage gap with expert staff augmentation services, or practical steps on cybersecurity preparedness from a clinician’s point of view.

A clinical view on cybersecurity with Dr. Raj Chopra 

At RSNA 2024, Merge Chief Medical Officer Dr. Raj Chopra gave a captivating talk about the clinical view on cybersecurity – offering a practicing radiologist’s point of view on why cybersecurity is so critical to healthcare delivery, and why it is highly relevant to clinicians—not just IT. If you missed the session, you’re in luck: Dr. Chopra has published a new article with his full thoughts on steps that healthcare providers and vendors can take to boost healthcare organizations’ responsiveness and resilience to a cyberattack without disrupting the work of caring for patients.  

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Inside Carle Health’s enterprise imaging strategy to integrate 8 hospitals’ imaging data 

This whitepaper addresses lessons learned on developing and deploying an enterprise imaging strategy at Carle Health. Learn how a multi-functional team, in partnership with Merge, led a transformative enterprise imaging initiative that unified imaging data across eight hospitals, enabled cross-enterprise care collaboration, and image-enabled patient portals.  

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Merge and Microsoft: A partnership on the Azure marketplace 

Did you know that Merge solutions are transactable on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace? Healthcare providers using Merge can reduce their Azure cloud commitments by using Merge imaging solutions. We’re delighted to be a featured partner in the Microsoft ecosystem, enabling clients’ expanding cloud and hybrid-cloud footprints.  

Merge Imaging Suite on Azure  

Bridging technology and operational excellence: Merge Consulting Services 

Introduced in June 2024, Merge Consulting Services (MCS) guides healthcare organizations through the complexities of technology transformation with balanced and data-driven advisory services. MCS helps clients find and realize new opportunities for improvement and growth with staff augmentation, AI adoption, and workflow optimization. 

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How Blanchard Valley Health System built a holistic medical imaging approach 

Blanchard Valley Health System saw an opportunity to build a comprehensive imaging strategy that could consolidate their many PACS systems and enterprise imaging archive needs, creating a single source of truth with seamless cross-department communication. Read our new imaging strategy paper written together with BVHS to learn how they underwent building a holistic imaging infrastructure; how that infrastructure optimized clinical workflows and eased user adoption across the enterprise; and how Merge helped to support their evolving imaging technology needs.  

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