Commentary, opinions, responses and topics relevant to healthcare data management.
‘Making A Difference’ – BridgeHead’s CEO Commemorates 30th Anniversary
In this commemorative blog, BridgeHead’s President and CEO, Jim Beagle, offers insight into how the company has evolved to the growing health tech business it is today. And he also reveals the ‘secret sauce’ behind BridgeHead’s success. Over to Jim… Happy birthday...
The system is down! How a Clinical Data Repository saved the day (Part 2)
In the second of this two part blog, Pedro Carvalho, Solutions Architect at BridgeHead Software, discusses why a Clinical Data Repository helped one of our healthcare customers continue an important project whilst experiencing unplanned downtime of its Cloud...
The system is down! How a Clinical Data Repository saved the day (Part 1)
In this two part blog, Pedro Carvalho, Solutions Architect at BridgeHead Software, discusses why a Clinical Data Repository saved the day for healthcare customers who recently experienced unplanned system downtime, referencing two real-life situations. The pain of...
Implementing shared care records with external FHIR repositories… how hard can it be?
In this blog, our HealthStore® product management leads, Tim Kaschinske and Adam Coombes, discuss BridgeHead’s recent participation in the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase. They talk about the task at hand – a demonstration of a shared care record in action, the...
What is this Clinical Data Repository thing anyway?
Off the back of a few conversations at various health tech conferences, Adam Coombes, HealthStore® Product Owner, unravels some of the three letter acronyms often used to describe what BridgeHead’s HealthStore solution is and what it does, and aims to dispel some of...
Encouraging the next generation of women in tech
In celebration of International Women’s Week, Deborah Mason, one of BridgeHead’s Professional Services Engineers, shares her remarkable journey from military life to the tech world. From her early days navigating the complexities of communication technologies in the...
Advancing recovery architectures in a cybercrime world
In his fourth blog in our series on cybersecurity, Steve Matheson, Product Manager for BridgeHead’s RAPid™ Data Protection solutions, discusses a recent meeting with a customer where they undertook post-event analysis following a cyber event with some interesting...
Reducing disruption to clinical operations following a cyberattack
Here is the third blog in this cybersecurity series where Steve Matheson, Product Manager for BridgeHead’s RAPid™ Data Protection solutions, explores the nature of cyberattacks in healthcare; some of the new, emerging threats, focusing on ‘data manipulation’; and...
The hidden vulnerabilities in Healthcare Data Management
In this second in the series of blogs on cybersecurity, Steve Matheson, Product Manager for BridgeHead’s RAPid™ Data Protection solutions, explores what makes healthcare organizations prime targets for cyber intrusions, explains the difference between 'attack...
Arming the healthcare enterprise for cyberattack risk mitigation
In this first in a new series of blogs on cybersecurity, Steve Matheson, Product Manager for BridgeHead’s RAPid™ Data Protection solutions, discusses planned and unplanned outages and their repercussions for healthcare organizations with a focus on what makes...
How is your hospital protecting its Linux workloads?
In this next blog of the series on data protection and cybersecurity, Steve Matheson, Product Manager for BridgeHead's RAPid™ Data Protection solutions, takes a closer look at the burgeoning use of Linux across the healthcare Enterprise and examines some of the key...
“What has a FHIR repository ever done for us?”
In this blog, Adam Coombes, Product Owner for BridgeHead's HealthStore, explores the value of a FHIR repository, leveraging the genius of Monty Python references to make his point. “Well, maybe not an aqueduct, but there’s healthcare!” Let’s begin by quoting directly...
More than 1,200 hospitals around the world rely on BridgeHead’s data management solutions.