Prestigious international annual awards program recognizes standout digital health & medical technology products and companies
WOBURN, US and Leatherhead, UK – 8th May 2025 – BridgeHead Software, a leading global provider of healthcare data management solutions, today announced that its HealthStore® Clinical Data Repository (CDR) has been selected as winner of the “Best Healthcare Data Repository Solution” award in the 9th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards. The awards program is conducted by MedTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global digital health and medical technology market. This marks the fourth time that BridgeHead has won this award initially in 2017, then 2019, 2023 and now 2025.
BridgeHead’s HealthStore® Clinical Data Repository (CDR) consolidates, stores, protects and shares live and legacy patient data residing outside of the EHR – including medical images, clinical reports, lab results, scanned documents and other essential clinical information. Once in HealthStore, clinicians and other stakeholders can quickly access this data directly ‘in context’ from the EHR. This provides a rich, longitudinal patient record that aids care decisions, improves patient outcomes, reduces workloads for health information mangers, leverages data for secondary use (such as clinical research) and powers analytics and AI initiatives.
HealthStore leverages standards such as FHIR, HL7 and DICOM for live interoperability between vendors and organizations. As a result, HealthStore can query, retrieve, and share data across disparate healthcare applications in support of complex patient journeys. This has been demonstrated repeatedly in live environments with HealthStore sharing data with systems, such as Epic, Oracle Health, eHealth Exchange and more; most recently shown at the 2025 HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas.
“HealthStore has been specifically designed to augment the patient record with easy access to data residing outside of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. As a centralized, interoperable clinical data hub, HealthStore underpins healthcare organizations’ digital transformation journeys and enables them to manage and leverage one of their most important and strategic assets, patient and clinical data, so critical in today’s modern healthcare ecosystem,” said Jim Beagle, President and CEO at BridgeHead Software. “It’s a thrill to accept the ‘Best Healthcare Data Repository Solution’ from MedTech Breakthrough. It is recognition that the direction we have taken with HealthStore as the ‘Foundation for the Future of Clinical Data Management’ is the right one. We will continue our efforts to ensure HealthStore continues to support the ever-changing needs of healthcare providers with advanced, future-proof data management solutions.”
The MedTech Breakthrough Awards program celebrates excellence and innovation in the health and medical technology industry, recognizing the companies, products, and solutions driving meaningful progress and improving patient care. Spanning a wide range of categories – including Telehealth, Clinical Administration, Patient Engagement, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Virtual Care, Medical Devices, Medical Data & Privacy, and beyond – the awards highlight the groundbreaking work that is transforming the healthcare landscape.
This year’s program saw a record-breaking number of nominations from leading companies and startups across more than 18 countries, showcasing the global impact and momentum of the digital healthcare industry today.
“Data locked in departmental silos or with other barriers to access, collaboration or sharing leave healthcare organizations with unnecessary burdens in productivity and effectiveness that impede care delivery and negatively impact patient outcomes and experiences. By aggregating disparate, often siloed, datasets, BridgeHead’s HealthStore is driving improved clinical and operational efficiencies for its customers,” said Steve Johansson, Managing Director, MedTech Breakthrough. “BridgeHead’s HealthStore Clinical Data Repository is redefining what’s possible in clinical data management, helping providers to consolidate, store, protect and share data from across the healthcare enterprise and beyond – now and into the future.”
HealthStore offers a range of solutions to overcome data management issues for customers from the underpinning of Enterprise Imaging strategies (with HealthStore’s inbuilt vendor neutral archive (VNA)) to the decommissioning of legacy applications, reducing risk and cost whilst preserving the value of the data they contain. Recent innovations include HealthStore’s ability to ingest and share data from live systems using FHIR, as well as offering business and clinical continuity for planned and unplanned downtime scenarios.
Justin Millar, Director of Information Technology and Security Management at Mount Graham Regional Medical Center in Arizona, offered his words of support for BridgeHead in receipt of this prestigious award, “We’re delighted that BridgeHead’s HealthStore has been recognized for the 2025 MEDTECH Breakthrough Award for Best Healthcare Data Repository Solution. HealthStore has given us a powerful and scalable foundation for managing legacy and clinical data across our enterprise. It has significantly reduced our overall costs while streamlining access for our Medical Records staff – allowing them to retrieve information from one central location instead of navigating seven separate systems. It’s become a critical component of our long-term data strategy at Mount Graham Regional Medical Center.”
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