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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,...

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...

As a healthcare professional, how are you handling the new policies set out by the Coalition Government and how have the changes to the core structure of the NHS impacted you? Today and tomorrow, the Healthcare Strategy Forum, held at the picturesque Beaumont Estate...

Guest blog by John Rollason of NetApp - @JohnRollason At the end of February at the HiMSS14 event in Orlando our partner BridgeHead Software announced a new healthcare data management solution based on the FlexPod Select architecture. As I’ve written about before, I...

This month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published version 1.0 of a national Cybersecurity Framework. This was at the behest of Obama’s Feb 2013 Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. Healthcare is considered...

Costs savings, the creation of operational efficiencies and improving patient care are common themes across the UK healthcare space. Today, hospitals generate ever increasing volumes of data, all in a bid to help successfully manage patient journeys and improve...

By Jamie Clifton What is it about hospital applications that make them hard to backup and recover? In truth, many applications and not just hospital applications are difficult to manage. However, hospital applications are typically more critical because of the nature...

This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series, on overcoming the unique challenges presented in archiving PACS images to tape. In part 1, I provided details on why this is a problem for most hospitals. In part 2, I provided information on how BridgeHead worked with one...

As described in our Part 1 blog entry on this topic, we have become aware that many hospitals are in the position of relying on a single device, often a tape library for their PACS image archive. We have worked with a hospital in the upper Midwest to solve this...

In our work with hospitals using various PACS systems, we’ve become aware of a common situation which can be solved easily and at low cost with BridgeHead to alleviate tape dependencies. What’s the Problem? A PACS receives radiology images in the DICOM format and upon...

One of the ideals behind a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) is that the data will be in a standards-based format making it available to any application that complies with the DICOM standard. So, in theory, once the data has been migrated from a proprietary archive to a...

Following our press announcement we’re pleased to be able to talk openly about the work we are doing at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (QE Gateshead). As it embarks upon its long-term strategy towards the vision of a holistic digital patient record, BridgeHead...