Commentary, opinions, responses and topics relevant to healthcare data management.
To Upgrade or not Upgrade – That is the Question?
By Gareth Griffiths, Chief Technology Officer, BridgeHead Software If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – it makes me ‘wannacry’… You know I often hear that, but it holds a huge hidden danger. How do you KNOW it’s not broken? The key point about upgrades and updates is...
Sports Medicine: Health IT’s New Digital Frontier
By Dr Saif Abed, Chief Medical Officer, BridgeHead Software When it comes to almost any digital transformation project that impacts clinical workflows, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is how to balance flexible access to patient information against...
How Patient Records Can Assist Mental Health Services
By Dr Gabriel Ma, Clinical Lead at BridgeHead Software Mental health treatment pathways for patients are highly personalised and not one-size fits all. Often mental health professionals need to gain an overview of a patient’s medical history in order to understand the...
Monitoring Backups: How Well Do You Know Your Backups?
By Gareth Griffith, Chief Technology Officer and Backup Product Manager, BridgeHead Software “Backup – yes, we’ve got it covered.” You’re unlikely to be surprised at how many times I hear this when I am talking with healthcare organizations. And, it should bring a...
PACS Renewal: Time For The NHS To Rethink Data Management Strategy?
By Jamie Clifton, VP of Product Management and Solutions, BridgeHead Software In today’s rapidly-changing healthcare sector, it’s hard to imagine what patient data will look like in ten years, seven years or even five years from now. We know there will be a lot more...
New BridgeHead Software 17A Release Improves Efficiencies and Performance
By Rob Quinn, Head of Global Product Marketing, BridgeHead Software BridgeHead Software provides hospitals with a cost effective, integrated data management solutions that ensures their most vital assets – clinical and administrative data – are collected and stored...
The Facts You Need to Know to Ramp Up Protection & Data Recovery for Your MEDITECH EMR
By John McCann, Senior Director of Marketing, BridgeHead Software For the past 17 years, BridgeHead Software has helped MEDITECH customers worldwide manage and protect their healthcare data. During that span, our offerings have complemented the MEDITECH Health Care...
Interoperability Needs to be a Focal Point of Conversations During National Health IT Week
By Tim Kaschinske, Senior Product Manager, North America, BridgeHead Software Taking place October 2-6, National Health IT Week (NHITW) is a nationwide awareness week, which brings the healthcare industry together to support the value of healthcare IT. Founded by the...
Four Ways to Protect Yourself from Ransomware Attacks
By Gareth Griffiths, Chief Technology Officer, BridgeHead Software Back in May, our eyes were opened to just how devastating an impact a ransomware attack can have on a healthcare system. More familiarly known as WannaCry, the attack crippled thousands of companies in...
Statistical MUSE-ings
By John McCann, Director of Marketing, BridgeHead Software BridgeHead Software once again was proud to participate in last month’s International MUSE Conference – the premier source for networking, educating and professional development for MEDITECH users. As a...
The Future of Cloud Data Integration
By Jamie Clifton – Vice-president Product Management & Solutions, BridgeHead Software I was recently asked to provide my predictions for the website Future of Everything on where cloud data integration will be 10 to 15 years from today. The healthcare sector is...
WannaCry NHS attack – lessons for backup and data recovery strategies
Gareth Griffiths, Chief Technology Officer, BridgeHead Software The WannaCry ransomware attack crippled thousands of organisations in 150 countries around the globe, most notably the NHS. Of those Trusts affected, many were quick to implement their tried and tested...
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