California hospital selects BridgeHead HDM for rapid recovery of MEDITECH data

Children's Hospital Central California, a not-for-profit children's hospital located in Madera, California, has deployed BridgeHead Software's health data management (HDM) platform for swift recovery of MEDITECH data.
BridgeHead's HDM integrates with Children's NetApp storage environment, backup and archive with single data repository to ensure optimised protection and recovery for all hospital data.
It also protects MEDITECH with integrated capabilities to ensure coherent data capture across MEDITECH's complex, multi-server environment.
According to the company, the hospital's IT staff were impressed with BridgeHead's integrated capabilities for NetApp, which orchestrate data capture using the MEDITECH Backup Facility (MBF) API and NetApp's snapshot technologies.
Children's Hospital Central California senior network engineer Brian Welch described BridgeHead as the backup traffic cop and the glue that holds the hospital's data management platform together.
"Since our DR copy is stored to disk, Children's has positioned itself for a rapid recovery of MEDITECH data obtained with lowered administrative burden and disk storage cost," Welch added.
"Children's has positioned itself for a rapid recovery of MEDITECH data obtained with lowered administrative burden and disk storage cost."
Children's Hospital Central California has medical staff of more than 550 physicians. It is the busiest children's hospital in the state.
The hospital is one of the ten largest hospitals of its type in the US, with 356 licensed beds.
NetApp strategic alliances manager for healthcare Charles Mallio said the company is pleased to work with BridgeHead Software to deliver the solution to Children's Hospital Central California.
"BridgeHead's integration with the MEDITECH API and our operating system Data ONTAP makes it an ideal data management solution for MEDITECH customers running on NetApp," Mallio added.
"By using the BridgeHead solution, Children's Hospital Central California is able to take full advantage of NetApp's data and storage management features while ensuring application-consistent recovery points for their MEDITECH data."