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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...