Yale-New Haven Hospital Deploys Bridgehead

BridgeHead Software Ltd announced that Yale-New Haven Hospital, Connecticut’s largest medical center, has implemented its archive software to manage the explosive amount of data generated by its McKesson Horizon Patient Folders (HPF) system.

BridgeHead archive is a method for protecting HPF data, which like many hospital applications, is not a good fit for traditional backup and recovery approaches.

BridgeHead’s archive solution allows hospitals to create policies that identify older, static data on their primary file server platforms and copy or move that content to a centrally managed archive where it is de-duplicated, compressed and encrypted. Furthermore, the archive has built-in self-protection and can be configured to create its own backup without third party software.

“BridgeHead Software is our ‘go-to’ solution for protecting unique data for any hospital application,” said Jonathon Valente, manager, storage and Unix systems IT services, Yale-New Haven Health System. “For example, we use BridgeHead for our Horizon Patient Folder application because its integrated archive capabilities make it ideal for managing HPF’s millions of small files. BridgeHead protects HPF data quickly, easily, and cost-effectively.”

McKesson Horizon Patient Folders (HPF) is an Electronic Document Management Solution (EDMS) that captures, indexes, stores and retrieves patient information, using workflow automation to support both the health information management (HIM) department and physicians in the ways they work. At Yale-New Haven Hospital, HPF data was rising at such dramatic rates that the hospital was struggling to come up with an alternative to backing up the system on expensive tier-one devices.

“Because the average backup software company has never heard of many hospital applications, hospital IT teams are struggling to find ways to protect them,” said Mike Ball, PhD and SVP, North America, BridgeHead. “BridgeHead integrated backup and archive approach provides solutions that are better suited to modern hospital environments, which are managing data on the cutting edge.“