PACS & EHR Data Management

IMT represents BridgeHead (BH) Software, a developer of comprehensive software solutions designed specifically for the Healthcare industry.  BridgeHead’s solutions enable healthcare organizations to intelligently manage, control and utilize the complete Electronic Health Record (EHR). BH MediStore is the solution for managing the clinical aspects of the EHR. Based on BridgeHead’s Enterprise Data Repository, all data is:

• Held in the most cost effective storage platform based on the content’s age and value
• Maintained securely by applying advanced user access rights and encryption
• Stored in a manner that solves backup and disaster recovery issues by managing content in multiple locations and on differentiated/tiered storage.

BH MediStore provides a DICOM storage class server for direct management of PACS Data, and will also enable DICOM queries for accessing this content by PACS systems, modalities or workstations. With the addition of an HL7 interface BH MediStore can provide the ideal PACS independent storage system for your DICOM data.

BH MediStore also allows for the management of non-clinical content, file-based electronic records and scanned documents, providing support for the paperless organization. BH MediStore can collect this content from existing file systems and also accept content via Web Services to allow for closely coupled integration.

BridgeHead Software is the world’s leading provider of MEDITECH data protection, with over 300 hospital networks worldwide supporting more than 1000 individual hospitals.

BridgeHead’s solutions are fully compatible with MEDITECH, DICOM and most PACS providers, plus Oracle, Microsoft, VMware, and most industry standard IT applications.  This broad compatibility is unique in the industry, and allows BridgeHead to offer a single data management solution across virtually all common healthcare compute environments.  Bridgehead’s solutions operate along side of, and therefore do not disrupt, the compute and primary storage environment of the above applications, and are transparent to these applications.  This simplifies the impact of a BridgeHead implementation, and virtually eliminates any impact on application management.

Customers who implement Bridgehead Software, combined with storage hardware solutions provided by IMT, can expect the following benefits:

• Greater sharing and quicker retrieval of secure patient data, for improved patient care
• More control over patient data
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership via a reduced amount of expensive primary storage
• More frequent and less disruptive routine backups
• Improved business continuity via more consistent disaster recovery policies and faster data recovery