: Merge Healthcare (the developer) launched an online community in late 2008 where third-party developers could sell "plug-ins" for the workstation, effectively making it the first "App Store" for medical imaging. The Legacy Today While IBM Watson Health (which eventually acquired Merge) stopped selling and supporting eFilm in June 2022
eFilm 3.1 supports all standard DICOM modalities: CR, DR, CT, MR, NM, US, and XA (angiography). eFilm Workstation 3.1.2009 PC
eFilm Workstation 3.1 represents an important chapter in the history of medical imaging software. At a time when PACS systems were becoming increasingly central to radiology workflow, eFilm provided a cost-effective, standalone diagnostic viewer that put powerful image interpretation tools on standard desktop computers. : Merge Healthcare (the developer) launched an online
Merge Healthcare sent an Urgent Medical Device Recall letter to all affected consignees on October 12, 2016, advising them to discontinue using the product and identify and notify all customers. The recall was ultimately terminated on May 30, 2019. A total of 2,163 units were distributed worldwide, including across the United States, Washington D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, and internationally. At a time when PACS systems were becoming