BridgeHead and Dell Together for Healthcare Archive Solution

BridgeHead Software and Dell are offering hospitals a new way to store their medical and administrative data: in a centralised repository, within a robust, protected, intelligent enterprise storage environment. The Medical Archive solution combines Dell’s hardware offerings with BridgeHead’s healthcare data management software to create a holistic and interoperable enterprise solution for hospitals looking to take control of their digital patient and administrative information.

The joint solution addresses one of the major data management challenges currently facing hospitals, namely the upsurge in healthcare data resulting primarily from the increasing volume of medical images (created across a range of modalities, from digital radiology to mammography, to name a few) as well as the adoption of the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and the move to a paperless environment (including the retroactive scanning of historical patient information).

The Medical Archive integrates the data from disparate clinical and administrative systems into a central, scalable repository that wholly understands healthcare data types and standards. Not only does this make interoperability easier across hospital applications, but it radically simplifies the protection and security of digital information. Furthermore, hospitals can dramatically reduce the data management burden in terms of both resource and cost.
"The Medical Archive solution that we [BridgeHead and Dell] bring embodies our collective ethos of supporting and underpinning the Electronic Patient Record and empowering IT at healthcare organisations of all sizes to meet their growing storage needs without compromising on current hardware brand or media type," said Tony Cotterill, CEO of BridgeHead Software.

He added: "We realised in our early discussions with Dell that there was a meeting of minds. We’re delighted to be partnering with an organisation that takes healthcare as seriously as we do. We both recognised that hospitals have significant challenges when it comes to the management and storage of data. Our aim was to provide a cost effective, future-proof solution that simplified the data management and storage process while providing robust content protection and security, as well as increasing operational efficiencies that positively affect patient care. We couldn’t be happier as our Medical Archive solution does exactly that."

Brett Roscoe, worldwide marketing lead for Dell Enterprise Storage, commented: "We continue to see an exponential growth of storage in healthcare where more and more information is being stored digitally.  Organisations require integrated hardware and software solutions that enable them to efficiently store, manage and discover their digital content. Working with Bridgehead Software, we are able to offer customers our storage platform with an industry-leading medical archiving solution from a proven information management leader."

The underlying technology for the joint solution consists of BH MediStore and BH OfficeStore from BridgeHead and the DX6000 Object Storage Platform from Dell.

BridgeHead Software, founded by Cotterill in 1994, is among Dell’s first 12 ISV partners and also counts among the very few that have gained certification with the Dell DX6000 Object Storage Platform.

This joint storage and data management solution is available for purchase immediately.