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Value
Merge's support has been better this year. I have also noticed that Merge isn't nickel-and-diming...
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Operations
Our user groups are back, and our team has enjoyed the participation and education. We also...
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Relationship
The vendor's executives are involved, and they seem to have a handle on how things are operating....
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Loyalty, Relationship
I think Merge has good technology. They seem to be a bit behind, but they are working to catch up...
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Loyalty, Relationship
We have been working with Merge on our strategy and talking through cloud, AI, and overall...
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Relationship
Merge by Merative has been having a better presence in building back the user group community. We...
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Loyalty
We are making a small shift to the cloud but are taking our time to do it. We are a large...
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Loyalty
We have been talking with Merge leaders about their strategies and road maps for moving to the cloud...
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Loyalty, Product
While we see Merge putting thought into moving to the cloud and integrating AI, we don't see a lot...
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Relationship
Merge seems to be tightening their belt, and that often means an acquisition is coming. I don't know...
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Relationship, Product
Merge PACS is stable, and we rarely have any issues or incidents of downtime. Merge has really...
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Relationship
Merge's support team is good. It feels like the team is more stable and better trained than in the...
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Culture, Value
For us, the biggest issue with Merge is the cost involved in doing any project with them. Merge...
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Product
Merge PACS doesn't operate like a dedicated mammography viewer. It cannot automatically distribute...
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Relationship
Merge's off-hours support is offshore, and the offshore staff members aren't as knowledgeable about...
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Product
Merge PACS has an excellent worklist configuration. It allows a large amount of flexibility for...
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Operations
Merge's training runs over a multiple-day period for PACS administrators. Then, organizations have...
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Loyalty
The main reason I wouldn't buy Merge PACS again is that it has two separate databases. One is for...
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Operations
I feel comfortable with the implementations that we do for Merge PACS. The system is very strong and...
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Operations
I would like to see Merge change their number of trainers for implementations. We do so much that we...
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Product
The quality of Merge PACS' product is quite high. The vendor has a couple of opportunities with how...
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Relationship
Merge usually tries to get ahead of things. Every once in a while, we will wish that they had done...
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Loyalty, Value
We have strategically moved on to Merge's platform because it meets a series of needs. In...
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Product
There is nothing that I specifically like about the PACS off the top of my head. It is an okay PACS....
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Operations
The implementation was very much less than perfect. I don't know whether that really reflects on the...
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Relationship
Due to our type of organization, we are constantly asking for changes and requesting different...
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Relationship
There are so many pieces to the PACS. Something is failing constantly. There is just always...
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Relationship
To improve the system’s functionality, Merge by Merative could listen to the customer. There are...
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Relationship
The vendor could be better prepared. When they plan downtime, they need to be more accurate on their...
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Product, Value
We have been using the system for years. The upgrades have been very incremental over that time, so...
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Relationship
We are able to see when the vendor is monitoring a situation or when they have remoted in to fix...
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Loyalty, Product
In the last year, we did a big upgrade. I believe we are on the latest version of Merge PACS today,...
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Product
There are some processes for making corrections. Our techs are human. If they make a mistake, the...
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Product
Technically, we are doing what we need to do. Even though we don't always like Merge PACS, we are...
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Operations
Since we went live with the product, we have had a few incidents that haven’t been good, especially...
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Relationship
There was an incident years ago that we still don't have a resolution to, and it is very...
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Value
I would rate the current product functionality a few points from the top of the scale, and that is...
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Relationship
I would buy Merge by Merative’s system again if it were the new version. In terms of the company and...
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Relationship, Product
Merge by Merative didn’t initially keep all their promises. We went with a big upgrade many years...
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Product
Coming from another vendor's product, there are some extremely quirky things about Merge PACS that...
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Operations
We don't have any training. Something that drives me crazy is that Merge just sends product release...
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Culture, Relationship
Merge absolutely doesn't keep all of their promises with Merge PACS. There were a lot of promises...
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Relationship
If I were asked whether I would buy Merge PACS again several years ago, I would have said absolutely...
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Product
Caching in the system is a huge issue that we deal with on a regular basis. Users have to have...
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Product
Right now, everything from Merge works fine. Their products do what they need to do.
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Product
There are a lot of things that I like about Merge PACS, like how we can customize its worklists and...
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Product
When we are bringing up priors in Merge PACS, we have to base them on a body-part rule. A previous...
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Product
There are a couple of things that we had in a previous version of Merge PACS that we lost in this...
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Relationship
We asked for an enhancement from Merge by Merative many years ago, and they put it in the product...
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Loyalty, Product
Merge PACS could be better. In this day and age, with radiologists all over the world reading for...
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Product
I have loved Merge PACS for so long. We just did an upgrade, and the quality was great. There was no...
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Relationship
I think things are going very well. I believe my PACS team feels that the support is very good....
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Product
The positives of the solution are that Merge PACS is stable, highly configurable, and familiar to...
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Relationship
We have been with Merge for so long that we have built strong relationships. We have really...
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Product
Merge PACS is pretty stable, and it does its job well enough. It meets our needs.
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Product
Our techs have issues with navigating Merge PACS.
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Operations
When we implemented Merge PACS, we went fast, and the vendor brought in a lot of people who gave us...
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Operations
Merge has done a good job with the implementation of Merge PACS. We have gone through a couple of...
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Product
Merge has done a really nice job with the integration of Merge PACS. The solution works well with...
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Product
We did a PACS upgrade in one of our environments awhile ago. And we just discovered something with...
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Relationship
When we ask Merge by Merative for new technology, they open up a ticket or a request to go to their...
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Operations
Merge by Merative is not great with training. It is challenging to get PACS training for the PACS...
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Relationship
We do have Merge by Merative monitoring things. I would give them a pretty good score for their...
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Product
I can't recommend Merge PACS. I'm not a fan of the PACS. There are other products that are tied to...
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Loyalty, Product
I don't think Merge by Merative's technology has kept up with the current state of technology. It is...
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Relationship, Product
For the PACS, Merge by Merative is a pain point. They don't reduce pain points. In one of our...
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Product
The interoperability with Merge PACS works as expected. And the PACS is pretty intuitive.
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Relationship, Operations
Merge has to go through FDA approval for their upgrades. That is why we don't always get bug fixes...
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Product
Compared to other PACS that I have used, Merge PACS is easy to use. When users get in it, they won't...
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Operations
The vendor's implementation team needs to know Merge PACS well enough to be able to highlight the...
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Operations
We are still early on in the implementation of Merge PACS, and there was a lot of change introduced...
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Loyalty, Relationship
In the initial discussion we had with the vendor, there were things that we heard Merge PACS could...
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Relationship, Product
With Merge PACS, we like the fact that our IT department can make changes to worklist configurations...
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Product
Merge PACS is a little easier to support than other Merge products. The vendor's monitoring system...
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Loyalty, Product
There is an assignment engine in the system that looks at credentialing, location, and things like...
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Loyalty, Product
Merge now claims to have a much larger test environment. We are excited about that upgrade. The...
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Loyalty, Product
There are just a couple of minor improvements that I would like in Merge PACS, but they will be...
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Relationship
The support from Merge by Merative is really good. If I call in and have issues, my questions get...
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Product
Merge PACS is very user-friendly. The way it looks is very simple, and it is straightforward in the...
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Relationship
As far as Merge PACS is concerned, support has been good. I would say the vendor's execution time is...
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Product
For the most part, the product works really well with all the applications that we have and all the...
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Relationship, Product
Merge by Merative is a good company. I like their products. They do push the cloud, but the...
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Product
Merge PACS is a PACS, so it has its ups and downs, but it has been stable. The doctors really don't...
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Relationship
For the most part, the vendor keeps their promises. That did change when they were acquired by...
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Operations, Product
I like everything about Merge PACS. It is very user-friendly. I train a lot of physicians on it, and...
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Product
Some of the quality control stuff in Merge PACS is daunting for everyday users, so Merge by Merative...
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Relationship
We are supposed to get notifications when stuff goes down. I get notifications, but I don't get them...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
All across the board, Merge PACS has most of the tools we need, and the vendor is actively...
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Product
Right now, we have to be reactive to the point that we have staff members refreshing multiple pages...
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Relationship, Product
When comparing the abilities of vendors in this space, I would say that Merge by Merative is up...
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Product
I have found that Merge's products are so configurable that there are sometimes issues with the...
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Relationship, Operations
For various reasons that were not Merge's fault, we weren't able to get our upgrades for the system...
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Value
I like that the product is inexpensive and still on premises. Since I don't run my own radiologists,...
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Value
We bought computers from Merge because the PACS is a special beast. We assumed that if we bought...
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Relationship, Product
Merge needs to do better blocking and tackling. Merge also won't fix the things that were broken in...
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Relationship, Operations, Product
We consistently have something that doesn't work right. The vendor is generally available. When we...
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Product, Value
The product is becoming a utility as opposed to something that is of strategic value to us. We...
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Operations
I have been happy with the vendor. They are very good. The vendor seems to come out with new things...
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Product
The system's layout could be a little better. There are a lot of customizations that we can do for...
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Relationship
The vendor has been great. Their representative and that person's ability to catch things and notify...
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Relationship, Operations
As far as the implementation goes, I don't think Merge's project management is very strong. I feel...
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Relationship
What I don't like about Merge is the support because when we have issues or downtime, we need Merge...
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Relationship
Overall, for the quality of the product, my team says there are some tools that come standard with...
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Loyalty, Product
I do like that we have Merge PACS stable right now. The product is good. All PACS products are going...
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Value
I do feel like we are charged for every little thing. If Merge looks at the system, we get a bill...
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Culture, Relationship
Since IBM sold Merge, things haven't been as good. The company that bought Merge didn't hit the...
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Loyalty
After talking to some other techs, I have found there is apparently some stuff out there that is...
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Culture, Value
The vendor is very good about not nickel-and-diming and using training hours to pay for something....
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Product
We work with several other facilities that also have Merge PACS, but we all have different versions....
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Relationship, Operations, Product
It is taking forever to get servers built. I don't know if that is a Merge issue or if there is just...
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Operations, Product
It is easy for end users to mess things up in Merge, but the product is pretty simple to use once we...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Merge has been very slow to innovate to the latest functionality around platform, single viewers,...
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Product
I would not buy Merge PACS again. The vendor is locking themselves into a model that makes things...
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Loyalty
We have used Merge PACS for years, and it works, but the vendor from years ago is not the vendor of...
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Loyalty, Value
To score Merge higher for return on investment, I would need to see them give us some functionality...
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Product
I love Merge PACS' flexibility and its ability for us to work with and integrate with things through...
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Loyalty, Product
Merge PACS has been incredibly helpful with us, but its look is a little dated, and it doesn't have...
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Product
For our radiology PACS, it would be nice to have the opportunity to make an improvement that would...
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Product
I like everybody and everything from the vendor. The vendor's technicians that I work with are...
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Loyalty, Product
Merge PACS can be as simple or as complicated as someone wants it to be. When we did have...
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Operations
With Merge's implementations across the board when we were going live, we have not had smooth...
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Product
Merge PACS does a good job of having good workflows, and that helps us a lot. There are a lot of...
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Relationship
Merge has really been quite responsive. I like where their new product manager is. We have a good...
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Loyalty
Our radiologists really dislike Merge PACS. We have a new product manager for Merge PACS who is...
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Operations, Product
Before, when we upgraded with Merge, the system would be down. Part of that was on us, and we worked...
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Loyalty
We are planning on going to the cloud, but our platform is currently stable, so there is no urgency...
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Loyalty
We aren't unhappy with Merge, but we have started looking into newer, more cloud-based PACS. I'm...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Merge PACS is probably not the best system out there, but I have no complaints. Merge gives us...
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Operations
I like how the vendor does their training. The vendor does something they call Tuesdays with Merge....
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Relationship, Operations
The vendor's support is good. We are always getting something, and Merge PACS is very easy to use....
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Value
We always joke about this, but it is true. Every upgrade for Merge PACS will fix one thing and break...
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Value
The vendor charges for everything. We can't use a deletion policy with Merge PACS without getting...
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Loyalty, Value
The vendor should switch to a zero-footprint viewer completely if they can, because Merge PACS is...
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Relationship
In our department, we don't really ask for promises, and we don't really need to. We never hold the...
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Product
I would definitely recommend Merge PACS for a small practice or a standalone specialty practice....
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Operations
We don't require training often, but when we do, we just issue a purchase order to the vendor's...
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Culture, Value
I have limited knowledge, but from what I can tell, our organization is getting a bargain on Merge...
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Loyalty, Product
Merge PACS never really gave me any trouble. In my role, I am happy with the system's back end...
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Loyalty
Merge PACS is definitely going to go away. It is going to be merged with another PACS that we use in...
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Loyalty, Product
We jumped from an older version of the solution to this version, and it was just a little bit of a...
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Culture, Value
For a long time, we were told by the vendor that we would be able to delete studies in Merge PACS...
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Value
It is hard for me to say we are getting our money's worth with Merge PACS because it is just so expensive....
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Product
I am pretty happy with the Merge PACS system. In talking to other people out there, they have more...
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Relationship
The vendor does a good job; they have monitors and alerts, and they watch things. I have a good...
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Relationship
We don't have much executive involvement from the vendor. We only get them if we have an issue that...
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Product
We generally don’t have any problems with upgrades for Merge PACS. However, the vendor's road map...
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Operations
The vendor's training is terrible. All they have is a website with some PowerPoint presentations. We...
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Product
The integration with Merge PACS is fine as far as restoring goes; basically, all I have to do is...
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Relationship
The vendor's support on the PACS side has been excellent. The techs that we work with are good at...
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Value
If we have issues, the vendor sometimes tries to sweeten the pot by saying that they would normally...
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Relationship, Value
Merative tries to be a good partner. They are responsive and approach things with a sense of...
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Operations, Product
Merative's product works well. It works fine in the integration environment. The vendor's training...
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Loyalty, Value
If I were to buy something right now, I would probably buy something other than Merge PACS. At the...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Our relationship with Merative is going okay. I wouldn't write home about it. We are not on a war...
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Relationship
The vendor doesn't keep all their promises. They have more challenges than the other vendors because...
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Value
The small things that we request from the vendor are usually not covered under our support agreement...
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Relationship, Product
There is a dark shadow over Merge PACS related to product releases, communication, and...
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Relationship, Operations
I would not recommend Merge PACS to any of my friends or colleagues. The vendor's project management...
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Loyalty
We are considering leaving Merge PACS because there is not a lot of need for the system in our...
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Relationship
We have been with Merge for years. Our relationship has grown during those years, and we have...
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Product
Merge PACS is a great PACS for a small facility like ours. The user interface is more complicated...
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Relationship
For overseas support, there is a communication barrier that makes things difficult. If we get on a...
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Relationship
The vendor has onshore support and overnight, offshore support. The onshore support people are...
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Loyalty, Product
We just upgraded Merge PACS. The main reason that we have Merge PACS is for integrations. Merge PACS...
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Loyalty
There are still features we need for Merge PACS that the vendor hasn’t released, including something...
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Operations
We recently attended the Merative user conference at the home office and found it to be informative....
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Loyalty, Relationship
There was a time when we were starting to look around and I thought our Merge PACS days would be...
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Relationship, Product
Merge PACS is good, and Merative has done a few things to improve the breast imaging tools. We have...
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