What is a Root Cause of Failures in Hospital Backup and Recovery?

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...

Part 3 – A Common Problem with PACS Image Archive: Tape

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...

Part 2 – A Common Problem with PACS Image Archives: Tape

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...

Part 1 – A Common Problem with PACS Image Archive: Tape

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...

Vendor Neutral Does Not Mean Vendor Compatible

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...