Merge Healthcare Clinical Trials Division Forms Alliance With AG Mednet

Merge Healthcare

announced a partnership with AG Mednet to provide life sciences companies with a full suite of tools to manage imaging clinical trials worldwide. The solution integrates AG Mednet's image collection platform with Merge Healthcare's Clinical Imaging Management System (Merge CIMS) to enable higher quality images and data flow directly into Merge's CIMS and electronic data capture (

) solutions. This integration marks the first time a turnkey solution for imaging core labs and sponsors provides an end-to-end solution to assemble, de-identify and deliver complete submissions to trial repositories, resulting in significant query reductions and increased submission quality. "This alliance creates the first complete infrastructure and feature set required by both commercial and academic core labs to carry out all the necessary logistics in support of clinical trials," said Dr. Jeffrey Popma, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Director, Angiographic Core Laboratory, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.