Wooster Community Hospital Remedies Daily Backup with BridgeHead Software
Consolidating
backup operations reduces administrative overhead
while ensuring data integrity “so we know
the data is usable.”
Mission
Wooster Community Hospital’s mission is to provide convenient, quality healthcare services to all people, promote community wellness, and to do so with compassion, dignity, and respect to those we serve.
Location
Located in Wooster, Ohio and serving its residents and those in surrounding communities.
Size
A 150-bed full-service acute care hospital offering a range of inpatient and outpatient services.
IT Infrastructure
Five MEDITECH server systems and five Microsoft servers running attached to an EMC SAN with ~1TB of data under management.
Critical Challenge
Consolidating data protection for all systems onto a single infrastructure, with less manual operation.
Key Concern “We need to be sure that the MEDITECH data is kept coherent at time of backup and only BridgeHead Software can do that for us.”
Problem Solved
BridgeHead Software HT Backup is built with exclusive MEDITECH ISB/IDR integration to ensure that data protected from multiple systems is kept coherent, while also consolidating and automating tape management tasks across MEDITECH and Microsoft systems.
Why BridgeHead
BridgeHead Software is the leading provider of backup, recovery and archive software for healthcare institutions. The company’s strong offerings include a unique backup and recovery system for MEDITECH and a general PACS archive which unites PACS systems data. With over 300 customers serving 1000 individual hospital sites worldwide BridgeHead leads the field in Healthcare Data Management.
Partnering Value
BridgeHead Software works with key industry distributors and exclusively through Value-Added Reseller (VAR) organizations to provide customers with trusted advisors that can bring them best-in-breed healthcare data protection solutions.
Operational Experience
BridgeHead Software automates data backup from SAN to tape, along with all tape management tasks, to eliminate manual swapping and reduce human intervention. Consolidating backup from individual DLT devices for each server to a single infrastructure also delivered more efficient use of the tape cartridges themselves.
Business Results
Coherent MEDITECH backup from SAN along with lower-cost,
lower burden backup operations across MEDITECH and
Microsoft systems—“BridgeHead alerts
us faster if there is a problem, eliminates manual
tape swapping, and we also do save on media costs.”
