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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...

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...

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...

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...