Commentary, opinions, responses and topics relevant to healthcare data management.
The Benefits of an Engineered, Standard Product Solution for Caché Database Protection
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...
Our Approach: Avoid Disrupting Departmental Workflows with Vendor-Neutral Archives (VNAs)
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...
A Promising Backup Solution for NHS VistA
By John McCann @johnlmccann Today, we announced an important new product release at BridgeHead Software – the Data Protection Suite for Caché Databases. The reason this product release is so important is because the InterSystems Caché® database is the underlying...
A Key Hospital Consideration: Where will Your Medical Archive be Stored in 20 Years?
By Tim Kaschinske @TimKaschinske When you archive your data, how long do you expect to keep it? Will you keep it for five, ten, twenty years, or longer? In healthcare, there are regulatory requirements that mandate how long you keep much of the data that you have...
Enabling Better Deployment of Healthcare EMR Applications
By Bobby Edwards Deployment of a new EMR application is an iterative process that involves customizing the software to a particular hospital’s workflow and procedures. This customization process requires changing the configuration of the application and its embedded...
Does your hospital’s Disaster Recovery Plan have a Single Point of Failure? [BLOG]
By Brendan O'Leary, Training Development Manager, BridgeHead Software. Disasters, in healthcare IT terms, can strike unexpectedly in any part of the world at any time. They can appear in the form of natural occurrences such as hurricanes, floods and fires. On...
The Radiology Department – data loss, data availability and the cost conundrum [BLOG]
By Shaun Smale, Solutions Architect, BridgeHead Software Ask yourself these questions: what cost would you put on short and long term data loss or unavailability (i.e. from planned outages and unplanned disasters) within radiology, both in economic terms and in...
The 80:20 Rule for Healthcare Data Management
By Neil Brown, Sales Engineer, BridgeHead Software I have recently taken up a new position working for BridgeHead Software who specialise in data management solutions specifically for the healthcare industry. Until joining BridgeHead, my background has largely been as...
Spring Cleaning and Healthcare Data Management Part 2
By Brendan O'Leary, Training Development Manager, BridgeHead Software Last month I shared the pain of spring cleaning the home office. I am now able to report back to you on the benefits that resulted that made it all worthwhile. Since the spring clean I have become...
ROI for an Enterprise Archive
By Tim Kaschinske | @TimKaschinske When selecting any software technology, it’s always important to understand the products return on investment (ROI). This is especially true for a technology such as an Enterprise Archive, as it has an impact on all areas of the...
Some Surprising Facts About MEDITECH Recovery
By Kelly Baig @KEHBaig If MEDITECH is your hospital application, then you understand that it is at the center of how much if not most of how your hospital functions. Whether in terms of patient care or payroll, when MEDITECH applications are not available, extreme...
VNA: Neither Vendor-Neutral nor Archive
by Tony Cotterill @TonyCotterill VNA technology has received much attention in healthcare IT and clinical environments over the last few years. But the definition of what a VNA technology is and the benefits that it can deliver varies widely depending on the vendor,...
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