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BridgeHead proves its HDM Solution’s XDS capabilities at IHE Connectathon 2015
BridgeHead Software has successfully completed the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North American Connectathon 2015 held in Cleveland, Ohio with its Healthcare Data Management (HDM) Solution, which incorporate its HealthStore® vendor neutral archive (VNA)....
A catalyst for change…
By Jim Beagle, President & CEO, BridgeHead Software In January, we announced that our customer Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (QE Gateshead) in the UK had completed the final phase of an image migration project to our HealthStore® VNA and gone live with a...
Making the EMR/EPR More Efficient With Better Access to the Patient Record
By Jamie Clifton With every healthcare solution we deliver, BridgeHead provides support or service to the provision of the Electronic Medical/Patient Record (EMR/EPR). The question is: why does the EMR need BridgeHead’s help or support? As the EMR becomes ubiquitous,...
What are your obsolete applications costing you?
By Tony Cotterill As IT adoption grew within healthcare, it happened at different speeds and without a clear lead from the IT department. Many departments ‘grew their own’ applications. In fact, Radiology, in many hospitals, grew its IT infrastructure faster than the...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
How Radiology and Oncology Deal with Multiple Forms of Patient Data
By Tim Kaschinske This is the third 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. My first blog addressed the challenges this new data...
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...
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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