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In our work with hospitals using various PACS systems, we’ve become aware of a common situation which can be solved easily and at low cost with BridgeHead to alleviate tape dependencies. What’s the Problem? A PACS receives radiology images in the DICOM format and upon...

One of the ideals behind a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) is that the data will be in a standards-based format making it available to any application that complies with the DICOM standard. So, in theory, once the data has been migrated from a proprietary archive to a...

Following our press announcement we’re pleased to be able to talk openly about the work we are doing at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (QE Gateshead). As it embarks upon its long-term strategy towards the vision of a holistic digital patient record, BridgeHead...

By Kelly Baig @KEHBaig In 2014, ACO and MU requirements will take priority for your hospital like never before. This is the year when the bar has been lifted, in which audits are real, and in which you must stay focused on your top priorities to be effective. “Half of...

By Tim Kaschinske @Tim Kaschinske In February 2012, Marian Community Hospital in Carbondale, PA, said good-bye to its patients and closed its doors for good. However, the hospital’s responsibility for medical images and other patient data would...

Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), as its full title implies, addresses two main functions; picture archiving and communication of those pictures. This blog is a personal classification of PACS by generations to explore the relationship of PACS and its...

By Kelly Baig @KellyEHB It’s that time of year again, when healthcare and radiological professionals are planning their holiday shopping lists around their upcoming annual sojourn to Chicago for what will be the 99th annual meeting of radiologic scientists from around...

By Kelly Baig @KellyEHB In his keynote address at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation’s Health IT Summit in Boston, Scott Lundstrom, group VP at IDC Health Insights made some startling predictions:  Scott shared that IDC predicts that 50% of hospitals...

By Tim Kaschinske @TimKaschinske Last month, BridgeHead successfully completed on-site installation and testing of its VNA solution with the Amicas radiology PACS available from Merge at a community hospital in Wisconsin.  This customer was already using BridgeHead as...

By Mike Ball This week, BridgeHead is pleased to unveil a sizable list of new technical training courses on Healthcare Data Management (HDM), which are available to the public. We have revamped our training to focus on the critical application environments which exist...

By Mike Ball National Health IT week is an annual event promoted by HIMSS. The purpose of this week of collaborative events is educational, with the intention of helping to “educate industry and policy stakeholders on the value of health IT for the US healthcare...

By Kelly Baig @KellyEHB Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting one of our BridgeHead customers, a community hospital serving more than 7,000 inpatients and 50,000 emergency room patients annually, located outside of Boston. My reason for visiting was to sit down...