Ill. hospital picks Merge for enterprise imaging strategy

Graham Hospital, a community hospital in Canton, Ill., has selected Merge Healthcare’s iConnect Enterprise Clinical Platform and the Merge Honeycomb Archive to enable enterprise-wide imaging.

The iConnect Enterprise Clinical Platform includes iConnect Access, a zero-download DICOM image and XDS server; iConnect Share, a gateway for enterprise image sharing; and iConnect Enterprise Archive, a vendor-neutral archive.

Merge Honeycomb is a cloud-based, long-term storage application that meets HIPAA and other privacy requirements, according to Chicago-based Merge.

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