Jersey selects BridgeHead’s HealthStore to handle medical photos

The Authorities of Jersey’s Well being and Group Companies (HCS) Division has contracted with BridgeHead Software to implement HealthStore to consolidate all medical photos in a central repository accessible by scientific and assist employees. 

HealthStore, which from 2020 has been run from a public cloud answer on Microsoft Azure, is about to underpin HCS’s Enterprise Imaging technique as a part of its overarching goal to develop into some of the digitally superior healthcare techniques on this planet.

BridgeHead’s Enterprise Imaging experience will allow HCS, which offers healthcare for over 100,000 Jersey residents, to consolidate, retailer, defend, and share medical photos of every kind and codecs from throughout a various array of scientific departments.

This Enterprise Imaging initiative feeds into the Authorities of Jersey’s strategic imaginative and prescient to achieve the very best stage of digital healthcare maturity – Digital Medical Document Adoption Mannequin (EMRAM) Stage 7 – from the Healthcare Data and Administration Society (HIMSS).

HealthStore will assist overcome the problems that had been being skilled by HCS the place photos had been saved on particular person departmental techniques that might be troublesome to guard, handle, and entry.

It is going to enhance workflow effectivity and clinician productiveness by streamlining entry to, and sharing of, medical photos; throughout departments, and in addition with exterior healthcare organisations.

Paul Morris, digital well being programme supervisor at HCS, mentioned: “The HCS group recognized a variety of imaging data that wanted to be introduced collectively to supply a real 360-degree affected person view.

“We wanted an imaging platform that provided a central repository the place any picture, whatever the supply software, might be saved in a typical format, and made out there to our healthcare professionals, all accessible utilizing a easy and intuitive consumer interface.”

The HealthStore deployment will deal with Radiology within the first occasion, earlier than widening the scope to convey medical photos into the system from different scientific departments.

CEO and President, BridgeHead Software program Jim Beagle added:  “The HCS group perceive that knowledge is a strategic asset and the lifeblood of high quality care supply.

“With diagnostic groups relying so closely on medical imaging, it is important that clinicians, whether or not working inside a division or a part of a multidisciplinary group, have fast and quick access to the entire data they should make knowledgeable care choices.

“We’re very excited to be a part of HCS’ strategic plans and assist it on its digital transformation journey.”