BridgeHead Blog

By Gareth Griffiths, Chief Technology Officer, BridgeHead Software What happens when the shiny toys break in your hospital? Before we consider the impact of replacing or upgrading hardware or even healthcare applications regarding the safeguarding of your critical...

By Gareth Griffiths, Chief Technology Officer, BridgeHead Software If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – it makes me ‘wannacry’… You know I often hear that, but it holds a huge hidden danger. How do you KNOW it’s not broken? The key point about upgrades and updates is...

By Dr Saif Abed, Chief Medical Officer, BridgeHead Software When it comes to almost any digital transformation project that impacts clinical workflows, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is how to balance flexible access to patient information against...

By Dr Gabriel Ma, Clinical Lead at BridgeHead Software You’re unlikely to be surprised at how many times I hear this when I am talking with healthcare organizations. And, it should bring a sense of relief. That is until I ask my standard follow up questions: “When did...

By Gareth Griffith, Chief Technology Officer and Backup Product Manager, BridgeHead Software “Backup – yes, we’ve got it covered.” You’re unlikely to be surprised at how many times I hear this when I am talking with healthcare organizations. And, it should bring a...

By Jamie Clifton, VP of Product Management and Solutions, BridgeHead Software In today’s rapidly-changing healthcare sector, it’s hard to imagine what patient data will look like in ten years, seven years or even five years from now. We know there will be a lot more...

By Rob Quinn, Head of Global Product Marketing, BridgeHead Software BridgeHead Software provides hospitals with a cost effective, integrated data management solutions that ensures their most vital assets – clinical and administrative data – are collected and stored...

By John McCann, Senior Director of Marketing, BridgeHead Software For the past 17 years, BridgeHead Software has helped MEDITECH customers worldwide manage and protect their healthcare data. During that span, our offerings have complemented the MEDITECH Health Care...

By Tim Kaschinske, Senior Product Manager, North America, BridgeHead Software Taking place October 2-6, National Health IT Week (NHITW) is a nationwide awareness week, which brings the healthcare industry together to support the value of healthcare IT. Founded by the...

By Gareth Griffiths, Chief Technology Officer, BridgeHead Software Back in May, our eyes were opened to just how devastating an impact a ransomware attack can have on a healthcare system. More familiarly known as WannaCry, the attack crippled thousands of companies in...

By John McCann, Director of Marketing, BridgeHead Software BridgeHead Software once again was proud to participate in last month’s International MUSE Conference – the premier source for networking, educating and professional development for MEDITECH users. As a...

By Jamie Clifton – Vice-president Product Management & Solutions, BridgeHead Software I was recently asked to provide my predictions for the website Future of Everything on where cloud data integration will be 10 to 15 years from today. The healthcare sector is...

Gareth Griffiths, Chief Technology Officer, BridgeHead Software The WannaCry ransomware attack crippled thousands of organisations in 150 countries around the globe, most notably the NHS. Of those Trusts affected, many were quick to implement their tried and tested...

By Stephen Matheson, Vice President, Product Management and North American Sales, BridgeHead Software At BridgeHead Software, we feel it’s important to continually assess healthcare environments, especially when considering legacy applications. Healthcare...

By Stephen Matheson, Vice President, Product Management and North American Sales, BridgeHead Software With the issue of disaster recovery continuing to keep many hospital C-level execs up at night, I developed a piece for the industry's premier publication on business...

By John McCann, Senior Director of Marketing, BridgeHead Software In my new global role, I was delighted to be able to attend the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition for the first time. It not only offered a great opportunity for BridgeHead to meet with customers and...

By Michael Ball, Senior Vice President, BridgeHead Software The annual HIMSS conference is THE healthcare information technology event which brings together health IT professionals, clinicians, C-suite executives and vendors from around the globe. This year HIMSS17...

By Stephen Matheson, Vice President, Product Management and North American Sales, BridgeHead Software Preparing for a disaster is a wasted exercise if you are already in the middle of it. The time to act is now, before it happens. Does this sound like common sense?...

By Chris Welch, Product Manager - RAPid, BridgeHead Software A Sky News investigation today revealed that NHS Trusts are putting patients at risk by not protecting patient data. Furthermore, freedom of information requests revealed that 7 NHS Trusts spent nothing on...

By Steve Matheson, BridgeHead Software Before we delve into some of the latest terms in healthcare data backup and recovery, I just wanted to set the scene as to why data management is not just important, but critical, in healthcare. Data is the lifeblood of any...