Healthcare Data Management provider partners with leading systems integrator to provide ‘best of breed’ solutions for hospitals in the Middle East.
ASHTEAD, UK and WOBURN, MA – October 01, 2013 – BridgeHead Software (BridgeHead), the Healthcare Data Management company, today announced its partnership with Helix Health Solutions (Helix), the leading system integrator in the Middle East specialising in the procurement, development, integration and operation of complex healthcare IT systems.
Helix will add BridgeHead’s Healthcare Data Management (HDM) Solution to its already extensive IT products and services portfolio, acting as a global reseller across its International markets. With offices in Dubai, UK, USA, Australia and Singapore, Helix’ geographical spread is significant – however, its initial engagement with BridgeHead was borne out of its strong presence in the Arab healthcare IT arena and some opportunities developing from hospitals in the region.
BridgeHead’s HDM is designed to help hospitals store, protect and share their clinical and administrative healthcare data. The partnership with Helix is a logical continuation of BridgeHead’s planned expansion in the EMEA region.
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“We officially met with BridgeHead at HIMSS 2013 in New Orleans. We were aware of BridgeHead’s leading position in data management for MEDITECH environments – initially, our focus was to engage purely to discuss the MEDITECH opportunities in our target markets. However, we quickly learned that BridgeHead’s offering goes far beyond supporting the MEDITECH HCIS and works with many other healthcare information systems. For example, BridgeHead has developed a Data Protection Suite for Caché databases offering a unique solution to the backup and recovery of Caché-run applications like Epic and InterSystems,” explains Michael Donovan, Chief Executive Officer of Helix Health Solutions.
Donovan continues, “in addition, we were delighted to discover that BridgeHead’s Healthcare Data Management Solution also provides hospitals a single environment for all of their data management needs, whether to support DICOM archiving from PACS, protecting email systems or more efficiently managing unstructured administrative data. This, combined with our geographical reach and our established relationships in the Middle East and other territories, opens up a wealth of opportunity for both companies.”
“Helix was introduced to us by our good friends at MEDITECH. There was an almost immediate connection between us – we are both completely focused on helping increase the efficiency and effectiveness of IT in secondary healthcare, helping hospitals to leverage technology to significantly improve their operations. Helix focuses on technology around various Hospital Information Systems (HIS) and solutions for Electronic Patient Record (EPR) environments – BridgeHead delivers holistic data management and protection software to support these critical applications. It’s a perfect fit with no conflict of interests. We look forward to working closely with Helix as we collectively maximise the opportunities available in the Middle East and other territories,” explained Andrew Carr, Director of Alliances EMEA, BridgeHead Software.
