McLeod Regional Medical Center selects Merge Healthcare solutions

Sept. 8, 2010

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Merge Healthcare, a health IT solutions provider, today announced a new contract with McLeod Health (Florence, SC). This agreement integrates the Merge cardiology work flow solutions with McLeod’s existing Merge radiology solution, allowing McLeod to streamline work flow and improve quality data across their entire cardiovascular service line, while also providing a unified image management platform.

McLeod Health, a 453-bed, locally owned, not-for-profit institution, is the region’s tertiary healthcare provider, delivering the highest level of care for the most acutely ill patients in the region. The McLeod Health System includes a progressive medical staff of nearly 400 physicians, the 79-bed McLeod Medical Center Dillon, the 49-bed McLeod Medical Center Darlington, and a state-of-the art McLeod Health and Fitness Center.

VERICIS is a single-point access to a patient’s integrated electronic cardiovascular record, as envisioned by the American College of Cardiology. A comprehensive knowledge tool for the cath lab, Hemodynamics integrates complete functionality for data collection, waveform analysis, inventory control, patient charges, image review, and procedural reporting into a single system. These solutions integrate with Merge’s ECM, which allow consolidation of images and image-related information in a proven vendor-neutral infrastructure across radiology, cardiology, and other image-intensive specialties from multiple backend systems.

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