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BridgeHead Software's survey in hospitals and healthcare organizations worldwide will remain open until March 31, 2010, with preliminary findings on healthcare and cloud strategies shared at HIMSS 2010 .

BridgeHead Software, a leading developer of healthcare data management software, announced it will survey hospitals and healthcare organizations worldwide to gauge the industry’s readiness for, and response to, explosive growth of information technologies and data they produce.

The drive towards greater implementation of healthcare information technology has been fuelled by global initiatives such as the UK’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and, in the USA, the HITECH Act. With incentive funding at stake, many hospitals have accelerated their technology strategies and are now generating data at unprecedented rates, consuming significant human, financial and IT resources in their efforts to keep up. The steady increase in volume of data has raised questions about best practices hospitals and healthcare organizations must adopt to effectively and efficiently manage, store and archive these data.

The survey will focus on a range of issues pertinent to healthcare data management including:

• The current rate of cloud services adoption, and if the industry perceives it as a potential solution to data management challenges;
• The magnitude of cost efficiencies organizations are gaining (or anticipate gaining) from virtualization of their server and storage infrastructure;
• The significance of the “Green Movement” in healthcare IT .

Those participating in the survey will be entered in a random drawing to win a range of prizes, including the new Apple iPad.

The survey will remain open until March 31, 2010, with preliminary findings on healthcare and cloud strategies shared at HIMSS 2010 in Atlanta March 1-4. Additional interim results on server and storage virtualization will be announced at World of Healthcare IT ( WoHIT ) in Barcelona, March 15 – 18 at BridgeHead booth 831.

Source: BridgeHead Software

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