EU HQs of Competence Centres Into Agreement With BridgeHead

EU HQs of Competence Centres Ltd (EUHCC) signed a reseller agreement with healthcare data management company BridgeHead Software Ltd.

This agreement allows EUHCC to extend its existing portfolio to include BridgeHead’s healthcare data management (HDM) solution, enabling hospitals to manage all of their systems and data within one environment.

As a platinum partner, EUHCC will offer HDM solution through its healthcare business network.

Headquartered in London, EUHCC is a business and management consultancy for the healthcare industry currently operating in 15 countries, including Germany, India and Saudi Arabia. By June 2014, it plans to open further offices in Russia, Singapore, Brazil and South Africa – providing a global service to healthcare organisations.

EUHCC has worked with BridgeHead for some time. Back in August 2012, EUHCC launched its Shared Medical Archiving Solution (SMAS), a certified solution for preserving patient data, adhering to formal data protection rules based on German legal standards. SMAS includes components of HDM solution, to offer a managed, cloud-based archiving solution for all hospital data, providing healthcare organisations an added level of assurance that where their data resides is not only compliant, but will remain secure. Now EUHCC has expanded its portfolio to include the capabilities of HDM solution, offering a software platform to store, protect and share clinical and administrative information, both on-premise and in the cloud.

The HDM solution provides a vendor neutral archive (VNA) for DICOM images and a compatible archive for non-DICOM files, both featuring a rich policy engine used for ILM, and controlling features like encryption and compression. It also offers protection for all data found within healthcare environments, such as medical images, scanned patient documents, and patient notes, through to email, PDFs and other office type files.

“Hospitals across the globe battle with the same issues of ever-growing healthcare data on a daily basis. By making intelligent decisions, they can strategically manage all data to maximise efficiency, reduce costs and improve clinical decisions and patient outcomes,” said Mark Silvan, CEO, EUHCC.

“We want to put hospitals back in control of their healthcare data. This is why we wanted to work closely with BridgeHead Software as our global partner – their solutions are designed to work with any hospital’s chosen applications and storage hardware, regardless of vendor. This is a unique offering,” added Klaus Aulenbacher, MD, EUHCC.

“We’re excited to partner with EUHCC as this extends the availability of BridgeHead Software’s HDM Solution into new markets where we have not previously operated,” said Andrew Carr, director of alliances – EMEA, BridgeHead. “This global collaboration will mean that even more hospitals will now be offered a complete, secure and controlled way of managing their data, delivering peace of mind around how to store, protect and share their clinical and administrative healthcare information.“