"This is a big step forward for RIS/PACS. In our fast-paced work environment, our radiologists must practice in the best and most efficient manner. We look forward to more fully leveraging Fusion RIS/PACS MX to improve workflow and capabilities not only for radiologists, but also for staff across our entire organization.”

"Merge’s comprehensive exam-driven workflow and customizable worklist management ensure that everyone in the workflow can be more efficient. It has been very rewarding to work with Merge in this solution’s development. Fusion RIS/PACS MX has become a critical tool in competitive environments."

“Fusion RIS/PACS has allowed Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology to centralize and consolidate many of our daily functions, from scheduling to billing, and enabled many employees, including schedulers, transcriptionists, radiologists and even IT support personnel to work from home offices rather than the traditional office setting.”

“The overall workflow of the Fusion RIS/PACS solution is one of the best I’ve seen. We’ve been able to rework the flow of our office to a level of efficiency that directly impacts patient satisfaction. Our patients love how quickly we are able to respond to their needs.”

"Our information philosophy emphasizes maximum data availability among all clinical and business stakeholders. Ultimately, we chose Merge Healthcare’s RIS/PACS solution for several reasons: user-friendliness, high uptime and data access, the number and clinical usefulness of features, support for standards and IHE profiles, price and scalability."

"Implementation of Fusion PACS was a breeze and ongoing administration has been pretty simple. We have one IT person, but he is doing everything, not just PACS. For a small company that doesn’t have a lot of IT resources, this has been a great solution for us."

"Our aim is to recreate the information management system around patient care. Specifically, we want to improve tracking of patient care through an automated medical information system and increase productivity via overall computerization of information and image management functions. The Fusion aXigate™ solution, with its rich variety of software modules, meets all of these needs very well and we are pleased to work with Merge Healthcare in the Fusion aXigate™ implementation."

“The Merge Mammo read station and software are easy to use and very intuitive. All buttons are intelligently laid out and hanging protocols are robust and simple to set up. Merge Mammo makes it easy to share and consult on difficult cases across our widely dispersed network.”

"Our close relationship with Merge’s development team has resulted in a feature-rich and efficient product that has made our clinical work much easier. Once we converted to digital mammography, our ongoing experience-based input and corporate collaboration has continued to make Merge Mammo a superb, vendor-neutral, standalone solution."

"Although Merge Mammo is a multi-modality workstation, we still saved money by avoiding the cumulative cost of purchasing several of the modality vendor's dedicated mammography workstations. By acquiring Merge Mammo and new monitors for our existing workstation, instead of five dedicated workstations at $37,000 per unit, we saved $185,000."

“With Merge Mammo, the doctors can actually annotate on the images and then send them back to the Siemens mammo system, so that technologists could see the area they need to spot. The radiologists were shocked that they could do that. Merge Mammo has been an awesome product for us.”

“On this single workstation, I can interpret mammograms and sonograms, so if I see a lesion on the mammogram, I can then read the ultrasound study to determine if it’s a solid lesion I can biopsy."

"Switching to digital planning and templating was really the next logical step after we acquired the Merge PACS several years ago. Orthopaedic surgeons use diagnostic images extensively and have unique requirements for imaging. Merge Ortho is a very intuitive tool for orthopaedic specialists and really boosts our workflow in terms of surgical planning. We're looking forward to measuring just how much Merge Ortho will impact our practice operationally and financially." 

“We have used the Fusion RIS Practice Analysis™ module to report on improvements we’ve achieved. We analyzed data from RIS/PACS, modalities and process perspectives, and strengthened our protocols by evaluating and optimizing study times per modality/exam. We then transferred that information to the RIS to schedule exams more efficiently.”

"We have used Fusion RIS Practice Analysis™ to evaluate critical operational aspects unique to our three locations, such as room utilization, scheduling, staffing, demographics, referral patterns and numbers of procedure types. This has helped us make changes that have trimmed costs and boosted efficiency."

"Using the Fusion RIS Practice Analysis module, we broke out our patients by age, gender and ZIP Code to target the radio stations that we were advertising on. We love this capability and use it all the time to assess our referral patterns, which helps guide the marketing staff to promotional opportunities. We also have harnessed Practice Analysis tool to help evaluate which imaging services could be offered cost-effectively on Saturdays. In the past, CT and mammography had been dropped from Saturdays, but Practice Analysis indicated that those modalities should be re-added to the weekend, in large part due to the workflow advantages of integrating PACS."

“Radiologists can read MRI, ultrasound, CT and x-ray images on the Merge Mammo workstation, which means we don’t have to interrupt workflow to read other modality studies.”

“MergeMammo is fairly intense. It’s important to equip the workstation with robust RAM.”

"One of the reasons we're competitive in our marketplace is our center-wide workflow – especially our ability to get reports out fast. The reports often will beat the patient back to the referring physician’s office, and sometimes the radiologists can dictate the report before the patient leaves the center.”

“The PACS allows us to filter our worklist in many different ways. We can easily divide up the worklist and send studies to the appropriate subspecialists. This has greatly enhanced our radiologists’ workflow.”

“We wanted a vendor to take us down the path to a truly integrated solution where the radiologist never leaves the PACS to accomplish the entire workflow.”

“The Fusion RIS/PACS desktop serves as the backbone of the imaging center service.”

“We started with a RIS as a foundation which allowed us to integrate all of the other components into the RIS. This is because workflow is everything, and the RIS handles the workflow. In radiology, the workflow is the same every time from the initiating phone call to the report delivery.”