Merge shares tech suite with software community

Merge Healthcare (Milwaukee), a health IT solutions provider, said that it will make its entire suite of internal technologies available to the general software development market. Merge's OEM team has developed a sizeable array of software modules during its long history of imaging and connectivity application development. These technical features have, until now, been exclusively included within a variety of internal libraries and utilities, and thus not available for general use by other members of the development community.

"Our engineering team is constantly asked to meet significant technical challenges," said Peter Bascom, senior VP of product development at Merge OEM. "As we solve these problems for specific applications, we can now retain and productize the solutions to help the broader development market. Our first entr e into this took a series of technologies in x-ray that solves image quality, dose measurement, image stitching, shutter removal, and quality control issues; and combined them into one toolkit called Cedara xPipe. We released this specialty toolkit to speed development and improve the quality of console applications."

"This is truly like unlocking the candy store for imaging software developers," says Justin Dearborn, CEO of Merge Healthcare. "Customers know we are the ones to ask about imaging's more difficult technical problems, and they have been waiting for this access. Distributing these technologies to the larger community is worth the investment because it can raise the quality and speed of imaging application development overall."