hospital_sign BridgeHead Software, Woburn, Mass, has announced a vendor neutral archive (VNA) upgrade campaign that will enable hospitals to leverage their existing investment in BridgeHead Software to upgrade to HealthStore, a next-generation VNA solution.

HealthStore will allow MEDITECH customers to realize full VNA functionality and begin the path to broader scale interoperability. Combining both licensing and services in a single package, the BridgeHead program aims to offer an easy and affordable option for hospitals to upgrade their existing MEDITECH SCA or MEDITECH ISB/IDR environments.

The campaign will allow customers to establish a data repository that simplifies MEDITECH’s access to images and other clinical content, all via standards such as XDS and HL7. Users can also expand the protection of data beyond their MEDITECH system to other healthcare data types, publish their own data for independent access by other applications, and achieve a more complete electronic medical record (EMR). In addition, the program encourages collaboration by providing data interoperability across a healthcare enterprise.

“Our customers want to bring images into view through the EMR and, today, that can be a challenge for a number of reasons, not least of which is keeping track of multiple PACS systems and clinical application refreshes,” said Mike Ball, senior vice president, BridgeHead Software. “HealthStore provides a single point of integration for the MEDITECH EMR and brings not only the PACS images into view but data from multiple other applications across the enterprise.”

The BridgeHead HealthStore independent clinical archive is a standards-based software repository for all healthcare data. It enables hospitals to standardize access to key elements of the patient record while simultaneously freeing them from dependence on any single system to locate the information. The HealthStore manages the information lifecycle of data across the entire healthcare enterprise, both clinical and non-clinical, within a medical facility or across organizations.

For more information, visit BridgeHead Software.

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