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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Interview with NetApp Strategic Alliances Manager for Healthcare; Focus on MEDITECH
By Kelly Baig @KellyEHB Charles Mallio, or Charlie as we call him, is a long-time healthcare IT professional and friend to many of us working with MEDITECH hospitals. He currently serves as the Strategic Alliances Manager for Healthcare at NetApp. In this interview,...
BridgeHead’s View: Key Trends in Health IT and What’s Coming in 2014
By Kelly Baig @KellyEHB This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Steve Matheson, BridgeHead’s VP of Product Management, and ask him for his view of BridgeHead’s recent product release. Steve shared his view of the key trends in health IT and what’s coming in...
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