Commentary, opinions, responses and topics relevant to healthcare data management.
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...
Legacy Applications: It’s Time to Retire
By Stephen Matheson, Vice President, Product Management and North American Sales, BridgeHead Software At BridgeHead Software, we feel it’s important to continually assess healthcare environments, especially when considering legacy applications. Healthcare...
Disaster Recovery: Where’s Your Security Weak Spot?
By Stephen Matheson, Vice President, Product Management and North American Sales, BridgeHead Software With the issue of disaster recovery continuing to keep many hospital C-level execs up at night, I developed a piece for the industry's premier publication on business...
BridgeHead In Demand with the Media and Analyst HIMSS17 Communities
By John McCann, Senior Director of Marketing, BridgeHead Software In my new global role, I was delighted to be able to attend the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition for the first time. It not only offered a great opportunity for BridgeHead to meet with customers...
In the Trenches: BridgeHead Fights Inefficient Data Management at HIMSS17
By Michael Ball, Senior Vice President, BridgeHead Software The annual HIMSS conference is THE healthcare information technology event which brings together health IT professionals, clinicians, C-suite executives and vendors from around the globe. This year HIMSS17...
Nine Steps to Recovery – Creating a Robust DR Plan for Your Hospital
By Stephen Matheson, Vice President, Product Management and North American Sales, BridgeHead Software Preparing for a disaster is a wasted exercise if you are already in the middle of it. The time to act is now, before it happens. Does this sound like common sense?...
Cybersecurity: How Can The NHS Protect Itself Against Cyber Attacks?
By Chris Welch, Product Manager - RAPid, BridgeHead Software A Sky News investigation today revealed that NHS Trusts are putting patients at risk by not protecting patient data. Furthermore, freedom of information requests revealed that 7 NHS Trusts spent nothing on...
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