It’s Time to Retire the VNA

By Jamie Clifton In his May 1 blog, Time to Retire the term “VNA”?, Joe Marion, Founder and Principal of Healthcare Integration Strategies, makes a sound case for abolishing an outdated term, VNA or Vendor Neutral Archive.  While I agree with much of Joe’s argument,...

Interoperability Upgrade for MEDITECH Systems

At this week’s MUSE Conference in Nashville, BridgeHead Software is announcing the MEDITECH Interoperability Campaign, a new program designed to help MEDITECH Hospitals to achieve true data interoperability by quickly and cost-effectively upgrading to the BridgeHead...

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...

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...