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Despite the continued march of technology into healthcare, referenceable patient information remains the diagnostic gold standard of the care process. Giving clinicians the information they need and helping them to fully understand their patients and bring better...

The economic and social cost of mental illnesses to the economy is estimated at £105 billion a year – roughly the cost of the entire NHS. Much like every other part of our health service, efficiencies will have to be found if we are to continue to improve mental...

According to NHS England’s Data Security and Protection Requirements trusts must “remove, replace or actively migrate or manage the risks associated with unsupported systems by April 2018.” Before they can get rid of outdated operation systems, trusts must tackle the...

For a hospital’s emergency department (ED), a patient’s history remains the gold standard for care, often providing the surest path to diagnosis. However, in an ED environment, where patients include those suffering from dementia and other mental illnesses, the...

In an authored piece for the AMGA flagship publication, Group Practice Journal, our Vice President of Product Management and Solutions Jamie Clifton asks readers to imagine that if healthcare were like popular music, most current EMR implementations could be compared...

With cybersecurity continuously on the minds of healthcare leaders worldwide, our very own Gareth Griffiths, Chief Technology Officer, was asked by SNS International to provide his insight how a well-designed and, crucially, well-tested backup and disaster recovery...

With G-Cloud 9 now extended by an unprecedented 12 months, BridgeHead’s Jamie Clifton gives his take on what this means for the NHS users of the framework and what he would like to see the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) consider for the next iteration. Read More

Although the holiday season is a time of giving and charity, it’s also an opportunity for the seasoned cybercriminal when it comes to getting their hands on data. That’s why our CTO, Gareth Griffiths, offered several tips to safeguard data for an article published in...

Patients are the sum of their conditions and their experiences, both of which play vital roles in making diagnoses. However, patients by themselves shouldn’t be relied upon to voluntarily supply information about current medications, past surgeries, recent...

Continuity Central’s lead article was contributed by BridgeHead’s Chief Technology Officer, Gareth Griffith, in response to the release of NHS England’s 2017/2018 Data Security and Protection Requirements, which sets out ten data security standards. His article...

The trend of hospitals acquiring physician practices, which began picking up steam in 2012, is continuing at a steady rate five years later. In nearly all acquisitions, the hospital wants the new entity to adopt its EMR and other systems which begs the question, what...

A physician’s ability to access historical patient information is an important part of providing value-based care. However, older information which is often still housed in older EMRs, or other applications and media, still has value, for both patient care as well as...