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...