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 Before they can get rid of outdated operation systems, trusts must tackle the...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

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...

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 ransomware attacks on the rise, our Chief Technology Officer, Gareth Griffith, recently authored a piece for the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC) where he lays out four tips that will help protect healthcare IT systems, including removing outdated systems...

In his guest post in Public Technology, our very own Gareth Griffiths, Chief Technology Officer, BridgeHead Software, stresses the importance of having 'tried and tested' disaster recovery plans in every hospital. Among other things, Gareth talks about data protection...