Commentary, opinions, responses and topics relevant to healthcare data management.

The Road to an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure

The Road to an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure

This January BridgeHead Software will participate in the MUSE 2015 Executive Institute, which will focus on the topic: “Achieving an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure.”  Much of the upcoming conference will key off of a recent paper from the Office of the...

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Beyond a VNA – the Independent Clinical Archive

By Tim Kaschinske In my last blog in this six-part series focusing on how healthcare organizations are dealing with unprecedented volumes of unstructured data, I talked about solutions within the market, one of which is the Independent Clinical Archive.  In November,...

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Possible Solutions

Possible Solutions

By Tim Kaschinske This is the fifth and final blog in a series focusing on how healthcare organizations are dealing with unprecedented volumes of unstructured data and how this impacts the holistic view of the patient’s data. You can read the prior blogs here: Much...

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Identifying a Patient

By Tim Kaschinske This is the fourth blog in a series focusing on how healthcare organizations are dealing with unprecedented volumes of unstructured data and how this impacts the holistic view of the patient’s data.  The previous blogs are available here: Much Ado...

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Balancing the cost and staff requirements of data protection

Steven Giangregorio, VP, Professional Services More often than not, when I’m discussing professional services work with customers, I’m told that their resources are strapped, that they are focused on too many things and that they can’t get started for a while....

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IHE, Hard at Work Solving Healthcare’s Big Data Dilemma

By Tim Kaschinske In my last blog I discussed the avalanche of unstructured data sweeping through healthcare organizations and the data management challenges it is creating.  In this article, I will introduce an organization that is working to resolve these issues in...

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Much Ado About Unstructured Data?

By Tim Kaschinske Unstructured data comes in many formats] Unstructured data is data that is stored in files rather than databases.  It is unstructured in that it is generally not organized for easy access.  There may be an application database with links to the files...

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Why We Do What We Do In Healthcare Data Management

By Mike Ball In my conversations with hospital CIOs around the country, I often discuss an intangible that I think is of general interest and importance to understand: Why does BridgeHead do what it does? I’ve realized something that is at the core of everything...

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Storage Cost Versus Clinical Performance

Due to the proliferation of data in hospital environments, the challenge IT managers face right now is to balance storage cost versus clinical performance. Recently, BridgeHead’s Solutions Consultant, Shaun Smale, explored this subject further and the resulting...

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Interview with an IT Director at Mary Rutan Hospital

by Kelly Baig @KellyEHB In 2012, Mary Rutan became a BridgeHead hospital for the first time, deploying our backup and recovery for their MEDITECH EMR application. This year, Mary Rutan elected to consolidate their backup and recovery by standardizing on BridgeHead for...

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