A Diagnostics & Imaging Week

Merge Technologies (Milwaukee), doing business as Merge eFilm, reported the completion of its acquisition of AccuImage Diagnostics (San Francisco), a company developing software for advanced visualization, analysis and management of medical imaging data from medical imaging modalities.

The transaction was priced at $6 million in cash.

Richard Linden, Merge eFilm's president and CEO, said, "The clinical depth and capabilities of AccuImage will strengthen the Merge eFilm Fusion RIS/PACS value proposition to both our end user and OEM/VAR customers. When integrated into our Fusion RIS/PACS, these advanced visualization tools will be accessible throughout our customers' healthcare enterprise, bringing them a competitive advantage and new sources of revenue."

Linden added that the company's OEM/VAR customers would be able to incorporate AccuImage software applications into their solutions.

Merge eFilm said it would maintain AccuImage's San Francisco office.

The AccuImage software portfolio is used by radiologists and specialty physicians such as cardiologists, gastroenterologists, pulmonologists and orthopedic surgeons. AccuImage's visualization tools released or in development include advanced 3-D/4-D visualization, calcium scoring, virtual colonoscopy, CT angiography, lung nodule detection, visceral fat measurement and image stitching.

Merge eFilm is a global healthcare software and services company.