Upper Allegheny Health System Protects Data With BridgeHead Software

BridgeHead Software Ltd
announced that Upper Allegheny Health System
(UAHS), which operates Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean General
Hospital in southwestern New York and northwestern Pennsylvania, has
implemented the BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management (HDM) platform with
Meditech ISB (Integrated Serverless Backup) and IDR (Integrated DR) Backup for
its EMR system, as well as protection for its enterprise data.

The UAHS deployment is an example of the collaborative, 12-year
partnership between BridgeHead Software, in healthcare data and
storage management, and Meditech. For more than a decade, BridgeHead Software
has helped thousands of Meditech hospitals, across North America and around the
world, to manage and protect their healthcare data.

UAHS chose to consolidate on the Meditech EMR for both its hospitals with
BridgeHead Meditech ISB and IDR for backup. The ISB/IDR protocol is certified
by Meditech as being critical for ensuring the recovery of accurate patient
data, by orchestrating the protection of that data from multiple Meditech File
Servers at a single point-in-time.

Building on its Meditech protection, UAHS also implemented BridgeHead HDM to
protect and recover enterprise data, including hospital financial and back
office information. UAHS has seen significant benefits working with the HDM platform, documented in new case study. These include cost
savings from unified backup systems, reduced administrative burden, and assured
coherent data at time of recovery.

"We now only have to work with one
data management platform for all of our hospital applications and data,
supported by one company, rather than multiple," said Joseph Leo, UAHS
system administrator. "That’s a substantial benefit and
time-saver. BridgeHead has provided excellent support and has always given us
help when we needed it."

"BridgeHead Software and Meditech
have a long tradition of working closely and leveraging our unique partnership,
to help organizations like Upper Allegheny Health System adopt assured,
coherent, streamlined data protection for their EMR and HIS," said
Mike Ball, PhD, BridgeHead SVP, North America. "We are pleased that UAHS, along with
thousands of other Meditech hospitals with whom we work, continue to extend our
unique benefits to a broader set of healthcare applications in their
environments."