BridgeHead Software - Data Management Solutions from BridgeHead Software and Sun Microsystems will aid development of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

HEAT makes agreeable from scanned abstracts and PACS accessible to EHR systems

HIMSS 09, Chicago, IL - April 6, 2009 - HEAT (Healthcare Enterprise Archiving Technology) abstracts administration solutions from BridgeHead Software and Sun Microsystems are set to be a key acknowledging technology for autumn and managing healthcare abstracts as institutions activate introducing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, according to the vendors.

HEAT, an able band-aid for cost-effective abiding assimilation of healthcare data, can advice institutions administer the ample aggregate of abstracts that resides alfresco of Healthcare Information Systems (HIS), including cardboard abstracts and advice absolute in Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), authoritative this advice accessible to EHR systems.

“There’s a abundance of abstracts that sits alfresco of the acceptable HIS that accomplish up allotment of an Electronic Health Record,” explained Charles Mallio, Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Marketing at BridgeHead Software, a specialist in healthcare abstracts management. “Paper abstracts such as active wills, accord forms and drivers’ licenses, as able-bodied as medical images can all become a advantageous allotment of the accommodating almanac if you’re aggravating to actualize a absolute EHR.”

HEAT is able to crop scanned abstracts and abstracts from systems such as PACS and email and encrypt it, abbreviate it and abode it aural an congenital accumulator athenaeum area it is amount bigger stored and protected. Data aural the athenaeum is indexed and searchable, aperture the way to affiliation with EHR systems.

“By accumulation Sun’s avant-garde products, which are broadly acclimated in healthcare, with archiving software from BridgeHead, the HEAT band-aid helps healthcare institutions advance accommodating affliction through bigger abstracts administration and integration," said Joe Hartley, Vice President of Global Government, Education and Healthcare for Sun Microsystems.

“We’ve appear above a amount of institutions who are traveling through the action of scanning and digitizing cardboard abstracts as allotment of architecture EHRs,” explained Mallio. “The incentives to advance the acceptance of EHR technology aural the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act¹ will beggarly abounding added will alpha traveling through the aforementioned process. And our acquaintance of alive with several of them has enabled us to appraisal that just scanning accordant cardboard abstracts could accomplish as abundant as 60 gigabytes of abstracts per bed per year. “

“Even for a almost baby 100 bed hospital, that would beggarly an added 6 TB of new abstracts every year. It’s no simple assignment befitting this aggregate of abstracts stored, adequate and accessible, and that’s area HEAT can help,” added Mallio.

HEAT comes in three bundles which are accessible to clothing the specific requirements of small, average and ample healthcare organizations. It consists of three tiers of storage, a Sun Fire™ X4240 server active Windows, a Sun Fire X4540 accumulator server and a Sun StorageTek™ L48 or L500 Tape Library chip with and managed by BridgeHead’s Enterprise Data Archive (EDA) software. The band-aid is cocky attention ‘out of the box’ as it automatically protects and backs up the archived abstracts and metadata.

“Storage costs are bargain because big-ticket primary accumulator is aloof for the a lot of accepted abstracts which needs to be added readily available, while earlier abstracts is retained in the arranged Storage Server and band archive. Because it is a cocky attention arrangement it will carve an organizations’ advancement basement and administration costs as they attack with the claiming of introducing EHRs,” explained Mallio.

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¹The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provides $19.2B in allotment to advance the amplification of Healthcare IT, in accurate the acceptance of Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology. The legislation provides incentives during FY11 thru FY15 for “meaningful users of certified EHR technology”. It aswell imposes reductions in Medicare reimbursements for hospitals who do not accept EHR technology.

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About BridgeHead Software - www.bridgeheadsoftware.com

BridgeHead Software is a arch provider of Healthcare Data Management (HDM) software for healthcare institutions and is the world’s arch provider of MEDITECH abstracts protection, with over 300 hospital networks common acknowledging abutting to 1000 alone hospitals. BridgeHead HDM combines backup, annal and accretion capabilities with seamless affiliation into specialized healthcare systems and applications frequently begin in healthcare environments. Integrated systems cover HCIS from MEDITECH, PACS systems from assorted vendors, Microsoft applications and arch accumulator systems. BridgeHead Software HDM is accumulator and bell-ringer agnostic, enabling HDM to plan with a customer’s accepted and approaching systems infrastructure.

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