BridgeHead Blog
Commentary, opinions, responses and topics relevant to healthcare data management.
How To Keep The Winning Edge During A Pandemic
A Q&A With Georgina Hurst On The Impact of COVID-19 On Elite Sport Question: How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected professional sport in the UK? Professional sports organisations have been significantly impacted by the global pandemic. Firstly, sports teams,...
Success Comes In Many Forms – an interview with Donna Daly
BridgeHead Software 25th Anniversary – an interview with Donna Daly BridgeHead Software has just finished celebrating its milestone 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we sat down with Donna Daly, our US-based Business Operations Manager, to explore her...
Standing the Test of Time – an interview with Gareth Griffiths
BridgeHead Software 25th Anniversary – an interview with Gareth Griffiths BridgeHead Software celebrates its milestone 25th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, we sat down with one of the founding members of BridgeHead, our Executive Director and Product...
Interoperability and the New Urgency for Data Sharing in Healthcare
By Tim Kaschinske, HealthStore® Product Manager at BridgeHead Software Analytics and data interoperability are hot topics in healthcare today. However, defining and implementing effective interoperability standards for healthcare data remains a challenge because there...
Don’t Let EMR Downtime Impede Your Hospital’s Operations
By Rob Quinn, Vice President of Global Product Marketing at BridgeHead Software EMR downtime can be devastating. Medical professionals require precise and up-to-date information in order to make informed decisions for their patients. As healthcare is an incredibly...
How Can Your Health System Save Money, Improve Security and Meet Your Regulatory Needs?
By Rob Quinn, Vice President of Global Product Marketing at BridgeHead Software If you ask any hospital, the chances are they will cite ‘saving money’, ‘improving security’ and ‘regulatory compliance’ as high priorities. Largely, initiatives exist to tackle these, but...
The Real Cost of Healthcare Cyberattacks
By Rob Quinn, Vice President of Global Product Marketing at BridgeHead Software Healthcare cyberattacks are happening at an alarming rate. The digital revolution has been extremely advantageous for both clinical practitioners and patients alike. Medical records are...
What customer success means at BridgeHead
BridgeHead Software 25th Anniversary - an interview with Brendan O'Leary As BridgeHead Software continues to celebrate its 25th anniversary, we asked our Solutions Engineer and Customer Success Programme (CSP) Lead, Brendan O'Leary, why BridgeHead's success is reliant...
How to Maximize the Value of Your Shiny New EMR Software
By John McCann, Global Senior Director of Marketing at BridgeHead Software Over the last few decades, hospitals across the developed world have implemented electronic medical record (EMR) applications in response to a mix of regulatory and market forces. Several...
How Reducing EMR Clicks Empowers Physicians
By Tim Kaschinske, HealthStore® Senior Product Manager at BridgeHead Software Reducing EMR clicks is important to strive for - it can save clinicians time and reduce frustration. To the untrained eye, the number of mouse clicks it takes to access a patient record...
How Image-Enabling Your EMR Improves Clinical Workflows and Patient Experiences
By John McCann, Global Senior Director of Marketing at BridgeHead Software When we talk about interoperability in healthcare, there is often a tendency to focus on text-based elements of the patient record, such as physicians’ notes or patients’ current medications....
Is My Organization Safe From Healthcare Cyberattacks?
By Rob Quinn, Vice President of Global Product Marketing at BridgeHead Software Healthcare cyberattacks pose a major threat to healthcare organizations worldwide. According to the endpoint security firm Cylance, healthcare is one of the most targeted industries for...
The secret behind BridgeHead’s 25-year success with Steve Matheson
An interview with Steve Matheson, Vice President of Product and Sales in North America As BridgeHead Software continues to celebrates its 25th anniversary, we asked Steve Matheson, Vice President of Product and Sales in North America, to look back on his 10-plus years...
BridgeHead & the NIS Directive
By Dr Saif Abed, Chief Medical Officer and Healthcare Cyber-warfare Expert at BridgeHead Software GDPR. It is probably one of the most talked about pieces of regulation in the past decade, such was its impact on people’s inboxes when it came into effect in May 2018....
The Real Impact of Inaccessible Patient Data in Radiology (Guest Blog)
Guest blog by Dr Rizwan Malik, Consultant Radiologist, Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust & Managing Director SMR Radiology To provide an effective and efficient clinical service, access to patient data is fundamental. As we touch virtually every clinical...
Who are you calling a cheat? (Guest Blog)
Guest blog by Dr Michele Verroken, Founding Director, Sporting Integrity "Who are you calling a cheat?" Ask this question and open up Pandora’s Anti-Doping box in the rapidly changing world of anti-doping drama and imminent planned regulatory changes. This last year...
See you at MUSE Inspire 2019!
By Gareth Griffiths, Chief Technology Officer at BridgeHead Software Just a quick note to say I’m excited to be going to the MUSE 2019 Inspire Conference in Nashville this week. It's a great place to meet many of you that will be attending and a chance for you to bend...
Hospital Resilience in the Face of Cybercrime (Guest Blog)
Guest blog by Justin Armstrong CISSP - Security Architect, System Technology Division – MEDITECH “The only constant is change” has never been more true than it is today. Technology has advanced rapidly in recent years; adoption of technology has increased...
Cybersecurity and the Impact of Legacy Applications
By Dr Saif Abed, Chief Medical Officer and Healthcare Cyber-warfare Expert at BridgeHead Software Today, cybersecurity is a hot topic in healthcare. Wherever you click there’s an article about the latest ransomware attack or statistic about how hospitals have become a...
Investing in the Interoperability of Healthcare Data
By Tim Kaschinske, HealthStore Product Manager at BridgeHead Software Much of the conversation around healthcare innovation at the moment is focused on interoperability and the sharing of patient information. The message is the same on both sides of the pond....