Howard County Medical Center Chooses BridgeHead

BridgeHead Software Ltd
announced that Howard County Medical Center
(HCMC), an hospital in St. Paul, NE, has selected
BridgeHead’s Healthcare Data Management (HDM) Solution to protect and manage
its proliferating patient data.

HCMC selected BridgeHead after consulting with two system integrators, each of
whom had independently recommended BridgeHead as backup and archiving solution for healthcare organizations.

HCMC CIO, Mike Brady, chose HDM solution because it provides a platform for the protection and recovery of his patient
record system, using both backup and archiving techniques. In case of a
disaster, system outage, data loss, corruption or other untoward event, HDM will enable HCMC to get back online, minimizing
any degradation of patient care.

HDM Solution enables hospitals to increase the quality
of care by harnessing all clinical and administrative data, ensuring that it
is:

• Stored efficientlyat optimum cost;
• Protected
  from misuse, corruption and loss;
• Can be Shared between users,
  applications, departments or other hospitals, making vital patient information
  accessible to the people who need it.

"BridgeHead’s HDM solution enables
Howard County Medical Center to implement a more cost-effective approach to
data management and segregate our data so that frequently changing dynamic data
is scheduled for regular backups while the majority of static data is stored in
a less expensive, secure data archive," said Mike Brady, CIO at Howard
County Medical Center. "This
eliminates the need to constantly purchase more hardware and ensures that our
data policy is in regulatory compliance."

"BridgeHead Software recognizes that
Howard County Medical Center has taken a strategic approach to the challenge of
expanding volumes in its healthcare data," said Mike Ball, BridgeHead
Software SVP, North America. "Not
only will the BridgeHead HDM solution answer their immediate needs, but it also
will provide Howard County with an economic and scalable solution that will
meet their future data management requirements beyond the patient record
system."