Radiology billing and RIS developer ImagineSoftware has entered into an agreement to make its platform for medical billing automation available to customers of Merge.
ImagineSoftware will assume frontline support for Merge customers who are using its Merge Financials and Merge Sentinel applications, and it will give them an option to upgrade to ImagineSoftware's own billing automation platform. Merge Financials was built on an earlier version of the ImagineSoftware platform, which should make migration easier, according to ImagineSoftware.
The deal will allow Merge to focus on developing cloud-based cognitively enabled software, while ImagineSoftware focuses on revenue cycle management and medical billing automation, according to Anne LeGrand, vice president of imaging at Merge's parent company, IBM Watson Health.