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#HIMSS17 Highlights – Mike Ball Speaks on Healthcare Now Radio
HIMSS17 in Orlando was another success for BridgeHead. This year we had a theme and we dressed our meeting room in camouflage army netting to send a clear message to our customers and prospects - our determination to help them fight inefficient data management in...
Legacy Software: Healthcare’s Weak Spot on Security?
Do you think that you have your hospital's data security buttoned down? Not necessarily, unless you take measures to retire your old and often obsolete legacy IT applications, your healthcare organisation could still remain vulnerable. In this article, our VP product...
Exclusive: FoIs reveal IT spending in the NHS is increasing
In this publication, you can read about the challenges around public budgets in healthcare, stemming from the NHS IT spending report. Our Vice President for UK and Ireland, Tony Tomkys, is one of the two external industry experts whose view was featured. Read the full...
A Secure and Paperless NHS? Legacy Applications Have to Go
Many healthcare organisations do not realise how many legacy applications they have. Bigger hospitals have 500+ applications, some of which obsolete and/or rarely used just to retain access to the data locked in them or for other compliance reasons. According to Jamie...
Cyber Security in the NHS…Time to Pull the Plug on Obsolete Operating Systems & Legacy Applications
According to recent ICO figures, the healthcare sector in the UK is facing the largest number of cyber and ransomware than ever before. What can healthcare organizations do to combat cyber crime? How should NHS Trusts protect their most valuable asset - patient data?...
Say Hello to Next-gen Archival Systems – Part II
This is part 2 of a series, explaining how healthcare organizations can retire their legacy applications and, at the same time, retain access to the data from those legacy and/or obsolete systems. (read Part 1) In part 2, Mike Ball, Senior Vice President , North...
How Can the NHS Protect Itself Against Cyber Attacks?
We are happy that our media partners from 'Info Security' have found a recent cybersecurity blog from 17 Nov (by Chris Welch Product Manager, RAPid, BridgeHead Software) interesting and have featured it in their publication. We hope that this useful information will...
Nine Steps to Better Disaster Recovery Planning
The time to prepare for a disaster is before it occurs! One would say that this is pretty logical, but too many healthcare organizations fail to prepare for this unwanted event, or don't do the right things to prepare properly. In this piece, Stephen Matheson, Vice...
Digital Health: Special Report – VNA & Data Storage
In her latest special report, Kim Thomas from Digital Health explores the new uses and the emerging trends for Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA), and the IT architecture for delivering them. In this feature, Jim Beagle (President and CEO, BridgeHead...
BridgeHead Software Accepted on G-Cloud 8 Framework
ASHTEAD, UK – 19 October 2016 – BridgeHead Software, the leading healthcare data management provider, today announced that it has been accepted as a supplier on the latest version of the UK government’s public sector cloud procurement framework, G-Cloud 8. The...
Say Goodbye to Your Legacy IT Systems
Are your hospital legacy IT systems ticking time bombs? Could they drag other systems down in a cascading failure or offer an entry for cyber thieves? 2 thought-provoking questions asked by Michael Ball, PhD, Senior Vice President, North America, BridgeHead Software...
Patient Data: The Catalyst to Raising Standards in Healthcare
Great coverage in Building Better Healthcare entitled "Patient data: the catalyst to raising standards in healthcare". The piece focuses on research undertaken by Massimiliano Claps at IDC on the increasing need of a 360-degree patient view and the resulting rise of...
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