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BridgeHead & NetApp Collaborate to Offer Hospitals Data and Storage Management Solutions
May 2013 by Marc Jacob
BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Data Management company, announced its membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program. The initiative arose following agreement by both companies of their synergies within the healthcare space. BridgeHead and NetApp collaborate to enable hospitals to store, protect and share their most valuable asset, their data, for the betterment of patient care. Our joint solutions can provide healthcare organizations with a full, end-to-end suite of data management and storage capabilities. These include, but are not limited to, clinical and administrative data archiving, information lifecycle management (ILM), comprehensive data protection and security, and a range of storage hardware and devices suitable for all environments and budgets.
Playing to each vendor’s strengths, BridgeHead Software will provide its Healthcare Data Management (HDM) Solution. This will enable hospitals to efficiently manage all of their systems and data, within one environment. BridgeHead’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’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. Through its advanced backup and disaster recovery capabilities, in conjunction with its archiving functionality and seamless integration with the NetApp® storage portfolio, BridgeHead can provide a complete data protection solution for healthcare environments.
NetApp enables healthcare organizations to deploy an agile data infrastructure that offers intelligent data management, non-disruptive operations, and infinite scalability. Healthcare customers’ data infrastructure must be efficient and feature application-aware software tools to allow IT professionals to immediately respond to rapidly changing healthcare requirements. Customers need non-disruptive operations and always-on data accessibility, a critical factor in the 24x7 business of healthcare. Today’s customers also are growing without limits. In order to keep ahead of the exponential data growth that comes with widespread adoption of EHR and PACS, they must have scalability.
Initially, the joint BridgeHead and NetApp offering will largely target IT decision makers within hospitals in North America and Europe where there are already talks with a number of healthcare organizations. Over time, the geographical coverage is likely to expand further.
