Commentary, opinions, responses and topics relevant to healthcare data management.
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...
The Latest Terms in Healthcare Data Backup & Recovery
By Steve Matheson, BridgeHead Software Before we delve into some of the latest terms in healthcare data backup and recovery, I just wanted to set the scene as to why data management is not just important, but critical, in healthcare. Data is the lifeblood of any...
MUSE Attendees Tell All: Clinical Data Challenges Top List
By Michael R. Ball, PhD, Senior Vice President, BridgeHead Software As a closely-allied partner of MEDITECH, BridgeHead Software has provided solutions that complement the MEDITECH Health Care Information System (HCIS) with backup, disaster recovery and archiving...
A Strategic Approach to Managing Patient Data in the NHS
By Tony Tomkys, Vice President of UK and Ireland, BridgeHead Software 2016 is going to be a real time of change for a number of NHS Trusts across the North East, Yorkshire & Humber, East of England and East Midlands regions (NEEEM) as they exit their PACS and RIS...
Don’t Let Terminology Fool You: Get the Archive System You Need
By Tony Cotterill, Chairman, Board of Directors; Executive Vice President and Chief Products Officer, BridgeHead Software We love our acronyms in healthcare, don’t we? Even departments within the hospital often have their own names. Consider the differences between...
Is Your Budget Being Eaten Up by Legacy Applications? Have Your Say
Legacy applications - if your healthcare organisation is like most, you have a lot of them. You may not use them, or even access them much, but you probably still spend a lot of time and money on them. Healthcare industry analysts believe that hospital IT departments...
It’s All About the Customer – What Sets BridgeHead Apart?
By Tony Tomkys, Vice President of UK and Ireland at BridgeHead Software BridgeHead Software was recently recognised by analyst firm Frost & Sullivan with its 2016 European Customer Value Leadership Award for Healthcare Content Management for demonstrating high...
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