Merge Healthcare has announced the release of MergeCOM-3(TM) Version 3.9, which adds the latest DICOM standard supplements to its industry-leading DICOM toolkit. Medical imaging software developers depend on MergeCOM-3 to jump start product innovation by providing much of the code needed to incorporate the DICOM standard. This standard is the basic “language” by which all medical imaging devices and systems communicate, and it is constantly improving to match the clinical needs of the industry. Version 3.9 contains support for important new standard supplements for nuclear medicine, pathology and ophthalmology.