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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 Before they can get rid of outdated operation systems, trusts must tackle the...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...

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...

With many Picture Archive and Communications System (PACS) contracts coming up for renewal is a straight PACS renewal or replacement contract for another five, seven or ten years with an existing or new vendor really the best solution? Or is it simply perceived to be...

In response to NHS Englands’ Matthew Swindells speech to the 2017 Health and Care Innovation Expo in which he urged software providers to “not be protective about ‘your’ data”, Jim Beagle, President and CEO at BridgeHead Software argues that common standards and an...