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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...

By Kelly Baig @KellyEHB In most hospitals, scanning is used to convert many types of paper documents into electronic images. For example, registration staff can scan insurance cards and admissions forms and add them to the electronic record for admitted patients....

[UK comment from Jim Beagle, CEO BridgeHead Software]  In the headlines this week, it was reported that new research from Macmillan Cancer Support revealed that 18,000 cancer patients’ medical files had been lost during the duration of their hospital treatment,...

By Tony Cotterill @TonyCotterill Recently, the BridgeHead team caught up with Greg Muller, director of business development, and Bronson Hokuf, vice president and product development manager, at Laurel Bridge Software, Inc. Their technical team completed a rigorous...

By Kelly Baig @KellyEHB This week, BridgeHead announced our introduction of a new solution for backup and recovery protection of InterSystems Caché® databases. This solution is important for hospitals because, to our knowledge, this is the first time any backup vendor...

By Tim Kaschinske @TimKaschinske A common discussion with regard to a PACS VNA is whether the archive should participate in the clinical workflow.  The view among most VNA vendors appears to be that the VNA can help correct problems with the clinical workflow, making...