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BridgeHead Takes Pole Position In The EMEA Independent VNA Market
August 2013 by Marc Jacob
BridgeHead Software announced
that it is the leading independent Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) provider in EMEA
according to data from the latest research by IHS, the leading global source of
information and analytics. The report entitled ‘Medical Enterprise Data Storage -
World – 2013’ provides a comprehensive global VNA assessment and an in-depth
understanding of the current structure and future development of this market.
IHS defines VNA as technology that consolidates PACS storage, within or across
hospital departments and allows the sharing and management of image data and
non-image data in a way that optimises clinical workflow. IHS lists the key minimum
features that a VNA must meet: DICOM and HL7 communication, support for multiple
PACS, non-DICOM data sharing, clinical lifecycle management, security, long-term
archive and disaster recovery.
BridgeHead Software provides a Healthcare Data Management (HDM) Solution that
enables hospitals to efficiently manage all of their systems and data, within one
environment. BridgeHead Software’s HDM offers a VNA for DICOM images and a
compatible archive for non-DICOM files, featuring a rich policy engine used for
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), and controlling features like encryption and
compression. BridgeHead Software’s HDM also offers comprehensive protection of all
manner of data found within healthcare environments, from medical images, scanned
patient documents, and patient notes, through to email, PDFs and other office type
files.
The VNA annual revenues for EMEA are placed at $51,112m for 2013, a 188% year on
year growth (2012: $17,735m) and are expected to reach $115,307m by 2015.
