Good Shepherd Medical Center Deploys BridgeHead Health Data Management

BridgeHead Software Ltd announced that The Good Shepherd Medical Center (GSMC), a progressive, not-for-profit hospital located in Hermiston, OR, has deployed the its Software Health Data Management (HDM) platform in a private cloud as part of its overall DR strategy.

Implemented by BridgeHead partner INHS, the DR environment is helping Good Shepherd to align with Meditech best practices.

INHS helped Good Shepherd to install BridgeHead’s Meditech ISB and IDR Backup as well as the BridgeHead Meditech SCA Archiving Agent both in the hospital’s primary and secondary data center. The combined HDM platform gives the center a single solution for protecting both its Meditech system and its Meditech image server with all its enterprise image stores.

Benefits from its HDM platform:

• Shortened Exposure: Instead of one nightly snapshot, the hospital completes a snapshot every four hours for more effective backups in a shorter amount of time.
• Meditech SCA Protection: Overcoming the size constraint of its Meditech SCA, the hospital is doing ongoing policy based archiving.
• Local and Remote IDRs: With completion of primary and secondary data centers, the hospital is able to do backups in each location for DR protection.
• Capacity Pricing: Enables hospital to add as many new VMs as necessary without worrying about the expense of licensing each new agent as it comes online.

“BridgeHead’s cloud-enabled backup and archive allows Good Shepherd Medical Center to protect three times as much data – including the enterprise images that we could not protect before – in the same amount of time,” said Rob Rizk, director, IT at Good Shepherd Health Care System. “It’s also put us on a path to Meditech best practices, which means that if we need their help in recovery they have the expertise to help us where before working with BridgeHead it might not have been that easy.”

BridgeHead enables two types of cloud solutions for hospitals: backup-to-cloud and archive-to-cloud. Its cloud-enabled backup solutions make use of block-level deduplication to ensure efficient use of both local and remote storage as well as to reduce network bandwidth. BridgeHead’s cloud-enabled archive capabilities use file level deduplication and compression to achieve the same purpose. With options for data encryption in-flight and at-rest, these solutions transform the possibilities for hospitals to securely manage and protect all application and data types.

“BridgeHead’s cloud solutions are helping hospitals to achieve their DR strategies without forsaking their need to maintain their data within the firewall,” said Chad Skidmore, director of infrastructure and technology, INHS. “BridgeHead 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.“