Beacon Hospital Selects Bridgehead

BridgeHead
Software Ltd announced that UPMC Beacon Hospital, the South Dublin-based
hospital providing world-care services, has implemented its integrated backup
solution to provide protection for all of the data within its Meditech Health
Care Information System (HCIS).

UPMC Beacon Hospital recently upgraded from
Meditech 5.5 to Meditech 5.6 and as such needed to implement a data protection
software solution that would provide backup and recovery of all clinical and
administrative data stored on its HCIS.

UPMC Beacon Hospital researched solutions
in the market, and having worked with BridgeHead in the past, recognised they
were able to provide a data management solution for their environment.

BridgeHead’s Integrated Serverless Backup
solution was therefore selected to create consistent point-in-time copies of
all its HCIS data, ensuring that if an unforeseen disaster were to occur,
hospital staff could retrieve the data. During the
implementation planning, the decision was also made to use BridgeHead’s
Replicate Tool, to help the hospital migrate their data as part of the upgrade.

"BridgeHead
Software was the obvious choice for us as it is the only vendor truly capable
of providing us a safe environment to replicate and back up our data from Meditech
onto the SAN," said David Mulqueen, IT manager at UPMC Beacon
Hospital. "BridgeHead has been
instrumental in providing a seamless transition by creating an excellent test
environment that we could then roll into live production."

With Integrated Serverless Backup, the hospital can take
advantage of a dedicated backup server controlling the backup schedule. This
ensures that a static image of the database is backed up to the tape library.

"We
are delighted to help UPMC Beacon Hospital with its storage needs," said
Jim Beagle, president and CEO of BridgeHead Software. "A recent international BridgeHead survey
revealed that although 65% of healthcare IT leaders said their data volumes had
increased over the previous year, only 26% said they had ‘robust,
tried-and-tested’ DR plans in place. But by implementing our backup
solution, Beacon are ensuring that the data is always accessible and secure,
especially in the event of a system outage or disaster."