BridgeHead Data Protection Suite for InterSystems Caché Databases

BridgeHead Software Ltd announced
its Data Protection Suite for InterSystems Caché databases, a backup and
recovery solution that integrates with Caché to provide rapid and reliable
management of hospital data.

InterSystems Caché is an object database at the heart of many hospital
applications, including Electronic Medical Records (EMR) applications from
Allscripts, Epic Systems, GE Healthcare, McKesson, Siemens, as well as
InterSystems themselves. The US Dept of Veterans Affairs has also used Caché as
the basis for their hospital system, called Veterans Health Information Systems
and Technology Architecture (VistA).

BridgeHead identified a gap in the market where there was no standard product
available to manage the backup and recovery of the Caché database for
the protection of many hospital applications. BridgeHead’s Data Protection
Suite for Caché now offers the only ‘out of the box’ solution in the market with this
capability – making the safeguarding of data within Caché environments easier.

Of particular interest in the UK, this solution introduction is expected to
help position BridgeHead to support the much talked about VA VistA solution
currently under review by NHS England.  BridgeHead describes the impact of
its new product for UK users in its blog, A
Promising Backup Solution for NHS VistA.

Data Protection Suite for Caché provides two backup agents,
supporting two alternative backup modes, designed to provide best-fit
approaches for both small and large hospital environments depending on the
storage in place at the facility. The solution also offers flexible options for
working with Caché’s own protection capabilities, operating in concert at local
and remote sites to extend protection to DR locations. Selecting the BridgeHead
solution enables hospitals to meet the protection guidelines specified by
vendors of hospital applications which embed Caché, such as the guidelines from
Epic.

Joseph Martins, MD, Data Mobility Group, comments: "BridgeHead Data Protection Suite for Caché delivers an integrated
standard-product solution which, to our knowledge, is the only standard product
available that is designed for hospital EMR applications. BridgeHead’s
break-through approach, which leverages backup and SAN technologies built into
their Data Protection Suite for Caché, is purpose-built to help hospitals meet
their unique requirements and constraints. Data Mobility Group applauds
BridgeHead’s continued laser focus on providing data management solutions that
integrate backup and archive practices specifically designed to protect
hospital environments."

Jim Beagle, CEO, BridgeHead, comments: "Recently, there has been a developing interest in the Caché database
from the UK healthcare sector. This is primarily down to the recent selection
of Epic Systems and InterSystems as providers of PAS under the London Framework
agreement, both of which offer healthcare applications that are underpinned by
Caché. Additionally, there are a wide range of applications deployed across the
NHS that utilise the Caché database, InterSystems Trakcare for one.
Furthermore, NHS England is currently investigating the viability of
implementing ‘NHS VistA’ – a version of the US Veterans Health Association’s
open source electronic medical record system, VA VistA – that also uses the
Caché database."