BridgeHead System for PACS Image Data Protection Tested by Fujifilm

BridgeHead
Software, Inc. announced that its file archiving data and storage management
system for PACS image data protection has been tested by Fujifilm Corporation at an US
hospital.

Fujifilm conducted extensive testing with BridgeHead’s solution which, in
addition to offering an archiving system, provides protection of PACS images
against image loss. The testing exercise was carried out to ensure that such
protection does not disrupt the PACS cardiology system’s workflow. The solution is a protection offering designed
for healthcare data management.

Fujifilm conducted interoperability testing
of its Synapse Cardiovascular System and Synapse Cardiovascular Archiver
together with BridgeHead to determine the complete function of the
image files communication. The hospital requested a validation of the
configuration to evaluate the use of the BridgeHead system, and at the
conclusion of the test, Fujifilm provided BridgeHead and the hospital with a
test report in which all 11 functionalities tested were validated.

The solution is a policy-based
archive and storage management system for file data that offers image protection. Images are at risk of loss from disk failures, silent data
corruption, and erroneous file deletes. Even images that are protected in
Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) repositories are still at risk of loss from these
threats.

"Management
of PACS images is an extension of patient care. When images are needed by
clinicians, it is absolutely critical that those images be available,"
said Craig Boisclair, CIIP, PACS administrator for Sturdy Memorial Hospital,
which has worked with BridgeHead for a number of years. "We depend on BridgeHead’s protection of our
Fujifilm PACS images to ensure this availability. Before choosing the
BridgeHead platform, I was left uncertain if I could recover our images when
needed. Now, I’m positive that I can and will fully address client needs due to
enhanced image accessibility and improved workflow."

File-level protection provided by
BridgeHead is an essential building block in BridgeHead’s Healthcare Data
Management (HDM), a solution suite designed to ‘bridge the gap’ between what
clinicians want and what IT professionals need. Clinicians want assured image
availability when and where required. IT professionals need data management
solutions which work with all clinical applications across the whole hospital,
and with capabilities designed to tackle the continuing growth and complexity
of data. HDM suite is a solution designed to bridge the gap
between best practices in data management and the specific requirements of
healthcare data.

"HA
for PACS images has become a high priority for many hospitals and health
systems in the US," said Matt Boardman, lead business
analyst with Katalus, a healthcare technology solutions provider. "Healthcare organizations that want to
safeguard those images from disk failures, silent data corruption or erroneous
deletes could benefit greatly from the image protection capabilities offered by
solutions like BridgeHead’s FileStore, either as a standalone solution or as a
complement to a VNA."

"Working
with leading institutions like Sturdy Memorial Hospital teaches us that today’s
PACS administrators demand more from archive systems because healthy patient
care depends on healthy image data," said Jim Beagle, CEO of
BridgeHead. "BridgeHead’s
HDM suite is the only software that combines image protection together with
DICOM and non-DICOM archiving, to ensure image availability for healthcare."